He ended up losing the bet,killed thirty Philistines in Ashkelon to pay off the bet, and stomped offin a rage. Theypressured her to get the answer out of Samson. During the wedding feast he madea bet with the Philistine men there that they couldn't guess a riddle. His fathertried to talk him out of it to no avail. Get her for me as my wife."He thought of her the way a man might think about the swimsuit issue ofSports Illustrated he was physically attracted to this woman. We began considering the life of Samson last week in chapters 13 and 14,which talked about his birth and ended with the story of a marriage feast.In his young manhood, Samson saw a beautiful Philistine girl and said tohis father, "She looks good to me. Samson, who is theantithesis of everything the men of the '90s say they want to be, can instructus as we look at why people do what they do and what makes us act contraryto our values. But it's interestingto me that at the same time that men are describing themselves as more sensitiveand caring, attuned to the needs of women and children the incidence ofrape is going up dramatically in this culture, abuse of children is rampantand growing, the streets aren't safe, relationships are dissolving at aterrible rate, and in the real practice of ordinary people relating to eachother, we see deterioration rather than improvement. (I would expect my kidsto yell, "Not!" at this point if they were here.) This poll askedmen what their impressions of themselves were, and they are giving us theiropinions, telling us their world view, if you will. He stillloves sports and sex, but he also thinks that he needs to be more attunedto the needs of women and family.Īn obvious description of our friend Samson. According to a Roper poll made public this week, the manof the '90s sees himself as being friendly, trustworthy, and kind. American men today say they do not want womento think of them as rugged and masculine, because they are really sensitiveand caring fellows, according to a newly released national poll on men andmale attitudes. I'd like to read you a paragraph that I clipped out of this week'snewspaper as an introduction to Samson's life. Today we're going to continue our study of the life of Samson in the bookof Judges.
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