M i g h t y S a m s o n 18 of Juda, all 3000 have come to say to you: Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us? Samson: I merely did to them what they did to me. 3rd Jew: What did they do to you? Samson: A while ago, I went to Temnah (between Ramallah and Lydda). There, I saw a young Philistine woman whose beauty captured me. So, when I returned home I asked my parents to let me marry her. But they refused and said “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our Hebrew people? Why marry a Philistine?” But when I insisted, they approved and I went down to Temna with my father and mother. On the way, a lion came roaring toward me. I grabbed it and ripped it apart with my bare hands. I was certain that the spirit of God moved upon me, divinely empowering me. In Temna, the girl’s father agreed to our marriage and allowed me to sit with her. My heart was filled with happiness as I talked with her. When I went to Ashkelon, the Lord empowered me again and I struck down 30 Philistines and went home with everything they had. 1st Jew: Then what?
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