Let us review some of the exploits of Samson:

• In the vineyards of Timnah, he "tore a lion assunder and he had nothing in his hand" (Judges 14:5-6).
• He went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men because they had learned the answer to a riddle from his wife (14:10-19).
• He caught three hundred foxes, knotted lighted firebrands in their tails, and set them loose in the grain fields of the Philistines (15:1-5).
• He was bound by the Philistines with two new ropes, but the Spirit of the Lord came upon him and released him. He then found "a fresh jawbone of an ass" and slew a thousand men (15:9-17).
• He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines for a period of twenty years (15:20).
• At midnight, he carried the doors of the Gaza City gates, two door posts, bars and all, to "the top of the …