Hey, this is Shelby and CJ, and we are working through the book of judges.

We're in chapters 13 through 15.

We get to our final judge here, which is Samson, a name that people are probably familiar

with, right, CJ?

Yeah, I would imagine Samson is one of the most popular guys from

the Bible in terms of like pop culture, right? Yeah, so Samson, these are some really fun chapters.

And one thing to think about as we go through is we talked at the end of last episode about how

God can turn lemonade from lemons. And that's sort of what we see with Samson. Again, he can take mixed

motives and immoral deeds and immoral character and somehow still see his plan come to

fruition. And that's what we're going to see with Samson. Great. All right. Well, let's jump into

chapter 13. Great. So we start with our first S, Israel's sins, and they become oppressed by the Philistines.

And then immediately after that, we hear about a day-night couple who can't have a child.

And the angel of the Lord comes and says, you will have a child. He's going to be a special man,

and I'm going to raise him up, and he's going to end up saving Israel from oppression. And he says

that this man is to steer clear of strong drink,

unclean things, and he's going to let his hair grow out. And this is a Nazarite vow just without

the word. And in fact, it might actually say Nazareth. I don't exactly recall. But maybe you remember

from numbers when we went through and we talked about the Nazarite vow. And it's a special time where someone is set apart for the Lord, okay? And that's what Samson is supposed to be. So he's born and the spirit of the Lord stirs within him, again showing that God has sort of commissioned this immoral man to secure victory for his people. And this, again, is going to remind us of Jethah. And we'll see how he reminds us of Jephth as we continue. Okay. Yeah, I'm excited to, I didn't pick that up. So I'm excited to hear what you have to say. Let's go on to chapter 14 then. Okay. So now he goes down to Timna, which is on the border of Dan, an Israelite region, in Philistia, where the Philistines are.

And he sees a Philistine woman, and he says, I want that woman as my wife.

And his parents, I think, just want him to marry a nice Israelite woman and just be done with it.

But he insists.

And it says that Samson's desire to marry this Philistine woman is from the Lord

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