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Thought for Today: Tuesday February 21:

Trusting in YHVH is a moment-by-moment choice. But the believers have not always understood this truth. After He performed miracles in the wilderness, His Chosen people trusted Him intensely – BUT only temporary. Soon the grumbling began again and again, testing His patience to the utmost. Is it not often the same way with us all? We trust Him when things go well, when we see Him working on our behalf. This type of trust flows readily within us, requiring no exertion of you will. However, when things go wrong, our trust-flow slows down and solidifies. We are forced to choose between trusting Him intentionally or rebelling; resenting His ways with us. This choice constitutes a fork in the road. Stay on the path of Life with YHVH, enjoying His Presence. Choose to trust Him in all circumstances.

SERIES H --- THE JUDGES --- LESSON 17

SAMSON AND DELILAH

DELILAH

From Judges 16:1-31

Samson went to Gaza where he met a woman and spent the night with her. Someone had seen him arrive and let the Philistine neighbours know. Before long a band of men surrounded the city gate, waiting to capture him as he left in the morning. ‘We will wait until it is light,’ they said. ‘Then we will kill Samson as he leaves the city.’ But Samson got up at midnight and went to the city gates. Of course, they were closed for the night, but Samson took hold of them and ripped up the gates, posts and bar from the ground and carried them on his shoulders to the top of the hill on the way to Hebron. Then Samson fell in love with a Philistine girl named Delilah, whose home was in the Valley of Sorek. The five rulers of the Philistines came to see Delilah. ‘Find out what makes Samson strong and how we may capture him,’ they said. ‘When you do, we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.’ The next time Samson came to see her, Delilah begged him for an answer. ‘Please tell me what makes you so strong,’ she pleaded. ‘How could anyone capture you?’ ‘If someone tied me with seven new bowstrings which have not been dried, I would be as weak as any other man,’ Samson answered. The Philistine leaders quickly brought the seven new bowstrings to Delilah. While Samson slept, Delilah bound him with the bowstrings. Meanwhile, Delilah had some men waiting in another room to capture him. ‘The Philistines are here for you!’ Delilah shouted suddenly. But Samson snapped the bowstrings like thread in a fire. The Philistines still did not know his secret. ‘You’re mocking me!’ Delilah said the next time they met. ‘You lied to me, too! Now please tell me how someone could capture you.’ ‘All right,’ said Samson. ‘If someone tied me with new ropes that have never been used, I would become as weak as any other man.’ As soon as Samson fell asleep again, Delilah tied him with new ropes. Then she shouted to him, ‘The Philistines are here, Samson!’ Samson snapped the ropes from his arms like threads. ‘More lies!’ Delilah pouted when they were together again. ‘You’re still mocking me. Now please tell me how you can be captured.’ ‘All right,’ Samson answered. ‘If you weave the seven locks of my hair into the web of your loom, then tighten it with the pin, I’ll be as weak as any other man.’ Later, when Samson fell asleep, Delilah did exactly as he had said. She wove the seven locks of his hair into the web of her loom and then fastened them with the pin. Suddenly she cried out, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson!’ When Samson woke up, he pulled his hair away from the loom, breaking it apart. Delilah continued to nag Samson every time they were together. ‘How can you say that you love me?’ she quarrelled. ‘You won’t even tell me what makes you so strong!’ Day after day Delilah talked about Samson’s secret until finally, he gave in and told her the truth. ‘I have always been a Nazirite, dedicated to YHVH before I was born,’ he confided. ‘My hair is the secret of my strength! If it were ever cut, I would be as weak as any other man.’ Delilah knew now that Samson was telling her the truth. She sent for the Philistine rulers. ‘He has told me his secret,’ she said. The Philistine rulers came with the money they had promised. While Samson slept with his head upon Delilah’s knees, she called in a man who cut the seven locks of his hair. Then she began to test her strength against Samson’s and found that he really was weak. ‘The Philistines have come for you, Samson!’ Delilah cried out. Samson woke up with a start, ready to fight the Philistines. ‘I’ll just shake myself free as I did before,’ Samson thought. ‘Then I’ll walk away from them.’ But Samson did not know that Adonai had left him. Seizing Samson, the Philistines gouged out his eyes and took him to Gaza, where they bound him with bronze chains and forced him to grind grain in the prison. But as he worked day by day, his hair grew back again. One day the Philistine rulers had a festival so that they could offer a sacrifice to their god Dagon. ‘Our god has given Samson into our hands,’ they said. The people offered praise to Dagon when they saw Samson chained. ‘He has delivered our enemy Samson into our hands,’ they said. ‘Now we have the one who killed so many of our people.’ As the festival went on and the people became more excited, they called for Samson to be brought into the temple. ‘Bring Samson!’ they shouted. ‘Let him amuse us!’ When Samson had been brought, he was placed in the centre of the temple near the two pillars that supported the roof. As the people laughed and made fun of him, Samson talked to the boy who had led him. I need to rest my hands on the two pillars,’ Samson told the boy. ‘Put my hands on them.’ The temple was filled with people, including the five rulers of the Philistines and three thousand people who had gone to the roof to get a better view of Samson so that they could amuse themselves with him. ‘O Adonai!’ Samson prayed, ‘remember me and strengthen me once more so that I may pay back the Philistines for one of my two eyes.’ After he had spoken, Samson put his hands against the two pillars, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other. ‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ he said. Then Samson put all his weight against the pillars and the temple tumbled down upon the Philistines, including all of the rulers. Samson killed more Philistines at the time of his death than he had during his entire lifetime. When his family had heard the news of Samson’s death, they came for his body and buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol near his father Manoah. Samson’s rule of twenty years ended.

COMMENTARY

DAGON’S TEMPLE

Dagon was originally a weather god whom the Philistines trusted to bring the life-giving rains for their food crops. Over the passage of time, he also became identified as the god of grain. When they settled in the grain-producing area of southern Canaan, the Philistines adopted Dagon as their chief god. The temple in Gaza devoted to him was only one of several in the cities of Philistia. Dagon’s priests may have offered human sacrifices in the temple altar fires during a crisis. They believed that such extreme actions would win the approval of the deity and bring its assistance. No traces of the temple at Gaza have been discovered. But archaeologists believe the temple was patterned after an ancient Greek building design called the [megaron.] The Philistines often used the basic design in their temples. In the simple symmetrical plan, porch pillars were the main support for the flat earthen roof of the rectangular building. Some temples also had rows of wooden columns inside to help support the very heavy weight of the mud, stone and wood structure. Samson knew about this architecture, for he asked that his Philistine captors place him between the two middle pillars; those that formed the central support of the entire building. In a final surge of strength, he heaved the great pillars from the roof. With this main support gone, the roof came crashing down, killing the crowds on the roof as well as those inside the main room.

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We've uploaded a new song! This is an original song that David wrote many years ago.

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"Yahweh, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy loftiness!"

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THIS WEEK
TERUMAH תְּרוּמָה
Heave offering

TORAH : EXODUS 25:1-27:19
PROPHETS : 1 KINGS 5:26-6:13
GOSPEL : MARK 12:35-44

Portion Outline

TORAH
Exodus 25:1 Offerings for the Tabernacle
Exodus 25:10 The Ark of the Covenant
Exodus 25:23 The Table for the Bread of the Presence
Exodus 25:31 The Lampstand
Exodus 26:1 The Tabernacle
Exodus 26:15 The Framework
Exodus 26:31 The Curtain
Exodus 27:1 The Altar of Burnt Offering
Exodus 27:9 The Court and Its Hangings

PROPHETS
1Ki 5:1 Preparations and Materials for the Temple
1Ki 6:1 Solomon Builds the Temple

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The #tabernacle (Mishkan) isn't just a model of the Heavenly Tabernacle. It is also a model of God Himself. Its arrangement, materials, and furnishings hint at a complex and mysterious structure within God. Consider just the Ark of the Covenant:

The inner gold ark is inner purity and a right heart.
The middle acacia ark is a heart of flesh instead of stone.
The outer gold ark is outward obedience, which earns crowns in heaven.

We are each made in the image of God, yet we are not complete outside of a family. As the Mishkan is a reflection of God and ourselves, it is also a reflection of a family. What does that say about God himself?

#exodus 25-40
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SERIES H --- THE JUDGES --- LESSON 16

SAMSON’S REVENGE

WITH A DONKEY’S JAWBONE

From Judges 15

When the time of the wheat harvest came, Samson had a change of heart about the Philistine girl he had married. He went back to Timnah to see her, taking a young goat with him as a gift. It was his plan to live with her again, but the girl’s father would not let him come into the house. ‘I thought you hated her,’ her father told Samson. ‘I let the best man at your wedding marry her. But there’s her younger sister. She’s even better looking than the girl you married! Why not marry her?’ Samson was furious. ‘I can’t be held responsible for what I do to the Philistines now!’ he shouted. Then he caught three hundred foxes and tied their tails together, two by two, putting a torch between each pair of tails. When he had set fire to the torches, he sent the foxes out into the Philistine grain fields, burning the wheat and the shocks to the ground along with the olive orchards. ‘Who burned our fields?’ the Philistines asked. ‘Samson,’ someone answered, ‘because his father-in-law married Samson’s wife to another man.’ The Philistines were so angry that they burned Samson’s former wife and her father alive. ‘I will pay you back for such a terrible thing,’ Samson vowed. ‘Then I will stop.’ Samson killed many of the Philistines, then went to the cave in the rock at Etam to live. The Philistines were angry now and sent a band of men to raid Lehi. ‘Why are you raiding our land?’ the men of Lehi demanded. ‘We want to punish Samson,’ the Philistines answered. Afraid of what the Philistines might do to them, the people of Judah sent three thousand of their men to the cave where Samson was staying. ‘Don’t you realize that the Philistines are our rulers?’ they said. ‘What are you trying to do to us?’ ‘I was doing only what they did to us!’ Samson answered. ‘Well, we are going to tie you up and take you back to the Philistines,’ the men said. ‘Promise that you won’t kill me,’ said Samson. ‘We will only tie you up and give you to the Philistines,’ the men of Judah promised. They tied Samson with two new ropes and took him back to Lehi to the Philistines. When the Philistines saw Samson bound with the ropes, they ran to meet him, shouting their anger against him. But the Spirit of Adonai came upon Samson with great power. He broke the ropes as though they were burning flax. Then Samson picked up a donkey’s jawbone that was lying nearby and attacked the Philistines. With the jawbone as his only weapon, Samson killed a thousand Philistines, as he threw away the bone, Samson said, ‘With the jawbone of a donkey, Heaps upon heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey, I have killed a thousand men.’ From that day on, the hill has been known as Ramath-lehi, ‘The Hill of the Jawbone.’ Samson was overcome with thirst and cried out to Adonai. ‘You have given a great victory to Israel through me, Adonai. Will You now let me go down to defeat as I die of thirst and fall into the hands of these heathen?’ Adonai heard Samson’s prayer and split a hollow place in the ground so that water sprang up from it. As he drank, Samson felt his strength come back. So that place has been known as Enhakkore, the Spring of Him Who Called, until this day. For the next twenty years, Samson was the judge over Israel. But the Philistines still ruled the land.

COMMENTARY

THE PHILISTINES

Samson was amazingly strong. Angered, he used his great strength to attack and slaughter many of the Philistines. Samson would not fight for his oppressed people. However, desire for personal revenge drove him to battle furiously, using even wild foxes to destroy the crops of his enemies. The years the judges guided the tribes of Israel were years of frequent warfare. As the Israelites exchanged worship of YHVH for idol worship, they found themselves more and more oppressed by their neighbours. The strongest and most hated enemy during this period was the Philistines. The Philistines were a warlike people living in the fertile plain along the southwest coast of Canaan. They were small in number, but they made up in fighting strength and skill what they lacked in size. Years before, the Philistines were part of a band of foreign warriors called the Sea Peoples who invaded some Mediterranean countries. One group of the Sea Peoples destroyed the powerful Hittite civilization north of Canaan. Together with the Philistines, they later attacked Egypt with such force that the battle marked the start of that once-powerful country’s downfall. The Philistines then spread along the coast of Canaan, easily overpowering the Canaanites. By Samson’s time, the Philistines who settled in Canaan had adopted many elements of the Canaanite culture. But similar though they may have been, in some ways they remained different and even superior to the peoples around them. Alone among the inhabitants of the Mediterranean, the Philistines knew the secret of making iron. They permitted the Israelites to buy iron axes, ploughshares and sickles and kept them sharpened and in working condition; but only during peacetime. During wartime, the Israelite soldiers were no match against the deadly iron weapons of the skilled Philistine warriors. The Philistines’ system of government gave them another advantage over the Israelites. Five city-lords governed the five major cities and surrounding areas. They made major decisions together, never acting without the consent of the entire group. With such unified, central leadership, they could easily challenge the scattered and disorganized Israelite tribes. They began to crowd into Israelite land, plaguing the tribes of Dan and Judah with border raids and surprise attacks. Instead of working together against a common enemy, the Israelite tribes continued to quarrel among themselves. Such division kept them weak and under Philistine rule for many years. Not until the unifying reign of King David did, they act together in strength to overthrow Philistine domination.