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Samson's and Jesus' births were both foretold by angels, [48] who predicted that they would save their people. [48] Samson was born to a barren woman, [48] and Jesus was born of a virgin. [48] Samson defeated a lion; Jesus defeated Satan, whom the First Epistle of Peter describes as a "roaring lion looking for someone to devour". [49]
The fourth regnal year of Solomon came exactly 1,200 years after the birth of Abraham (Abraham was born in AM 1946 if the two years of the flood narrative are excluded). [27] There were exactly 20 kings in both Judah and the Kingdom of Israel following Solomon, despite Judah lasting more than a century longer than Israel. [28] "It seems very ...
The year Joshua was born (if like Caleb he was 40 years old when he was sent forth as a leader with the spies from the wilderness of Paran to spy out the land 2 years after the Exodus). Moses was 42, Aaron 45 years old. See Khyan 1600–1580 BCE Rahotep c. 1585 BCE; Exodus 7:7 Numbers 13:2–16 Deuteronomy 2:14 Joshua 14:6–13 Joshua 24:29: ...
Delilah from the Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum. Delilah was a woman of Sorek. [2] She is the only woman in Samson's story who is named. [5] The Bible says that Samson loved her (Judges 16:4) but not that she loved him. [5]
The book of Genesis records the descendants of Adam and Eve.The enumerated genealogy in chapters 4, 5, and 11, reports the lineal male descent to Abraham, including the age at which each patriarch fathered his named son and the number of years he lived thereafter.
Articles relating to Samson ("man of the sun"), the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy.
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The Book of Judges relates that Lehi was the site of an encampment by a Philistine army, [2] and the subsequent engagement with the Israelite leader Samson. [3] This encounter is famous for Samsons' use of a donkey's jawbone as a club, [4] and the name Ramath Lehi means Jawbone Hill.