Hey, thanks for listening to A Year in the Bible. We love that you tune in day after day as

we're journeying through scripture this year. We have a couple episodes left in the book of judges

just today and tomorrow. Today we're talking through judges 16 through through 18 and we've been following Samson's

story and it's wild. It's chaotic. Is that continuing today, CJ?

Yep. Judges 16 is going to give us the final chapter of the Samson saga here. So he spends

the night with a prostitute in Gaza, which obviously isn't probably the best thing to do.

And the Philistines surround the house and they plan to attack him when he's here, right?

Catch him when he's weak. But he sneaks out and he puts the crossbars of the city on his

back and he carries them off as if to say, I'm stronger than you. There's nothing you can do

to get me. And then he meets another lady friend named Delilah, and the Philistines promise to give her money

if she can discern where he gets his strength from and then tell them the secret so they can

get him. And she keeps bagging him and banging him, and he won't tell her, he won't tell her,

but finally he says, well, it's my long hair. If you cut my

long hair, I'm not going to be as strong anymore. So he falls asleep, his head gets shaved,

and then the Philistines gouge out his eyes, bind them up, and take him back to their palace,

where they use them as essentially a trophy. And they say, we've defeated Samson, we've defeated

the Israelites, there's nothing that anyone can do about it.

But hair grows back.

So Samson's hair starts to grow again.

And with one final effort, he pulls down the palace and he crushes more Philistines through his death than he does through the whole time that he's existed,

or through I guess the rest of his life is a good way to put it, which I think we see where

this is going.

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