{"id":2570,"date":"2014-10-12T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2014-10-14T21:14:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T01:14:41","slug":"sunday-brunch-samson-and-delilah-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/sunday-brunch-samson-and-delilah-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch – Samson and Delilah!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did Samson\u2019s lust affect his logic?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always wondered about this, so I decided to devote a Sunday Brunch blog post to this topic. In Judges, Chapter 16<\/i>, the Philistine rulers approached Delilah since they knew that Samson was in love with her. They wanted to know the secret to Samson\u2019s strength. The rulers offered to give Delilah money if she could tell them his secret.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s always stumped me was Delilah asked Samson FOUR TIMES, about the secret of his strength. The first three of those four times he lied to her, and, afterwards, he always fell asleep and found himself bound with offending material, and Delilah was always yelling about the approaching Philistines. Samson always easily escaped from the ropes, fabric, thongs, etc. since these items did not deplete his strength (although he\u2019d told Delilah otherwise).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always thought that sometime during those first three times, Samson would\u2019ve gotten a clue that Delilah had an agenda. It was so obvious considering the pattern of events. However, he ended up telling her the truth eventually, and that caused his downfall.<\/p>\n

Do you think that Samson was so overcome with lust and love for Delilah that he couldn\u2019t think clearly? He didn’t seem to be very smart!
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I think his lust overcame his logic. Also, the scriptures mention that the Lord came upon Samson numerous times. Perhaps this was the way that the Lord wanted the events to occur? <\/b><\/p>\n

Feel free to share your thoughts!<\/p>\n

~Cecelia Dowdy~<\/a><\/p>\n

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  Did Samson\u2019s lust affect his logic? I\u2019ve always wondered about this, so I decided to devote a Sunday Brunch blog post to this topic. In Judges, Chapter 16, the Philistine rulers approached Delilah since they knew that Samson was in love with her. They wanted to know the secret to Samson\u2019s strength. The rulers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-testament","category-sunday-brunch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-Fs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}