Samson and Delilah

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Samson and Delilah

• Justin Larimore, Megan Proffit, and Lauren
  Buchholz

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Summary of Story

• Delilah asked by Philistines to find the source
  of Samsons strength
• Supposedly paid a lot of money
• Asks him four times
• Samson gives her three wrong answers
• Fourth time, Philistines come in, cut his hair,
  and gauge his eyes

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Israel at the Time

• Under the control of the Philistines
• Philistines wanted to get rid of Samson
• Posed a threat
• Samson was thought to be the deliverer of the
  Israelites
• Free them from the Philistines

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Samson

• Born to a barren mother
• Nazarite from birth
• Strongest man in the world
• Strength came from the length of his hair
• Eliminated an entire army with a donkeys
  jawbone
• Tore a lion apart with his bare hands

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What is a Nazarite?

• Took a vow (Numbers 61-21) to agree to
• Abstain from wine/grapes or anything in relation
• Refrain from touching a dead body
• Keep hair and beard long
• Timeframes of being a Nazarite
• Nazarite for a set time
• Nazarite for life
• Nazarite like Samson

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Who is Delilah?

• Philistine?
• Beautiful
• Spy/tool
• Sent to find out the true source of Samsons
  strength
• Hebrew translation
• night
• flirtatious

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Nagging

• Samson tells Delilah a false answer three times
  when asked how he could be bound
• Seven fresh bowstrings
• New ropes
• Weave seven locks of head with web and pin
• Numbers 1615fourth time Delilah asks Samson
• Then she said to him, How can you say, I love
  you, when your heard is not with me? You have
  mocked me three times now and have not told me
  what makes your stregnth so great

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Love and Betrayal

• Did Delilah really love Samson?
• Judges 164
• The Bible doesnt mention here after Samson is
  captured or after his death, this could be proof
  that she was just a tool for the Philistines.
• Did Samson really love Delilah?
• He says he loves her (Judges 1615) but yet there
  is evidence he doesnt fully trust her because he
  chooses not to tell Delilah the truth the first
  three times she questions him.

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Examples of Weak Overpowering Strong

• If we want to use other movie thingscruel
  intentions, wild things, etc
• Other biblical passages? (david and goliath, adam
  and eve, etc)
• Meaning of their names, day vs night different
  cultures/family and bad to mix

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Samson and Delilah Pop Culture Icon

• 1949 Movie
• Simpsons episode
• Renaissance art
• Slides with copies of these pictures follow? I
  dont know
• Cultureetc.i dont know