Judges 13-14

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Pastor Mike looks at the beginnings of the life of Samson, reading verse-by-verse through Chapter 13

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Judges 13-14

Verse 1

Again we see the same pattern in the life of Israel. This time they are given into the hands of the Philistines for 40 years.

Verses 2-3

Zorah = hornet - It was about 15 miles west of Jerusalem in the tribe of Dan’s alloted land.
Manoah = rest
Angel of the LORD = A Christophany

Verses 4-5

Nazarite. You might remember the Nazarite vow from
Numbers 6:1–21 ESV
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord, 3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. 5 “All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. 6 “All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. 7 Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head. 8 All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord. 9 “And if any man dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10 On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day 12 and separate himself to the Lord for the days of his separation and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering. But the previous period shall be void, because his separation was defiled. 13 “And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the entrance of the tent of meeting, 14 and he shall bring his gift to the Lord, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering, 15 and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings. 16 And the priest shall bring them before the Lord and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering, 17 and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its grain offering and its drink offering. 18 And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19 And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened loaf out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaved the hair of his consecration, 20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. They are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed. And after that the Nazirite may drink wine. 21 “This is the law of the Nazirite. But if he vows an offering to the Lord above his Nazirite vow, as he can afford, in exact accordance with the vow that he takes, then he shall do in addition to the law of the Nazirite.”

Verses 6-7

Verses 8-14

Verses 15-18

We see the obviousness of the Angel being the Lord since no angel of God would accept a sacrifice.
Also the Angel gave another hint when He said “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful”
Wonderful as you may remember is what Jesus is called in Isaiah.
Isaiah 9:6–7 ESV
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Verses 19-21

Verses 22-23

We shall surely die.
This comes from
Exodus 33:20 ESV
20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”

Verses 24-25

Samson = like the sun

Chapter 14

Verses 1-3

Deuteronomy 7:1–6 ESV
1 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 5 But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. 6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
In the NT the Christian has a similar command...
2 Corinthians 6:14–18 ESV
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, 18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Verse 4

God had a plan in all of this. Even though Samson was violating God’s command to not intermarry, God would still bring about His own purpose.
But imagine what God might have done in and through Samson, if Samson was obedient to God’s word.

Verses 5-9

OK, we have multiple issues here. As a Nazarite from birth and that call being till death in Samson’s life he was to abstain from the fruit of the vine. Although Samson did not actually eat or drink from the grapes he was content to be in the vineyard.
Numbers 6:3–4 ESV
3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
This is the power of temptation. We know that there are certain things to abstain from, but we find ourselves dangerously and comfortably close to those things. Soon enough we will succumb to the temptation and complacency in our lives and be right where the enemy wants us.
No doubt Satan wanted Samson to live close to sin.
Well, lets look at the other issue here. The carcass of the lion. The person under the Nazarite vow was to stay away from dead bodies...
Numbers 6:6–7 ESV
6 “All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he shall not go near a dead body. 7 Not even for his father or for his mother, for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean, because his separation to God is on his head.
Judges 3. Samson Slays a Lion and Eats Some Wild Honey (5–9)

Significantly, Samson did this after he was remarkably filled with the Holy Spirit. This shows that an outpouring of the Holy Spirit does not automatically make a person godlier. An outpouring of the Holy Spirit gives one the resources to be godlier, but it doesn’t “do it to” them. A person can be wonderfully gifted by the Holy Spirit and yet very spiritually immature.

Notice Also that Samson was deceitful by not telling his parents where the honey came from.
Maybe he knew his parents would have rejected the honey and had a sit down with him to talk about his rebellion against the God that had called him to be a Nazarite.

Verses 10-11

feast = a bachelor party, lit the Hebrew word speaks of a drinking party.
Why is a Nazarite hosting a drunkfest?

Verses 12-14

Changes of clothing - this is the nice clothes, in our day it might be a well tailored suite.

Verses 15-18

Verses 19-20

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