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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 10:16 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Sunday March 15 > Judges 13-15 (The Message) > > Judges 13 > > Samson > 1And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil > in God's sight. God put > them under the domination of the Philistines for forty > years. > > 2-5 At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of > Dan. His wife was barren > and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and > told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to > become pregnant and bear a > son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat > nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a > son. No razor will touch > his head-the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment > of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression." > > 6-7 The woman went to her husband and said, "A man of God came to me. He > looked like the angel of > God-terror laced with glory! I didn't ask him where he > was from and he didn't tell me his name, but he told me, 'You're pregnant. > You're going to give > birth to a son. Don't drink any wine or beer and eat nothing > ritually unclean. The boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of birth > to the day of his death.'" > > 8 Manoah prayed to God: "Master, let the man of God you sent come to us > again and teach us how to > raise this boy who is to be born." > > 9-10 God listened to Manoah. God's angel came again to the woman. She was > sitting in the field; her > husband Manoah wasn't there with her. She jumped to > her feet and ran and told her husband: "He's back! The man who came to me > that day!" > > 11 Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, > "Are you the man who > spoke to my wife?" > > He said, "I am." > > 12 Manoah said, "So. When what you say comes true, what do you have to > tell us about this boy and > his work?" > > 13-14 The angel of God said to Manoah, "Keep in mind everything I told the > woman. Eat nothing that > comes from the vine: Drink no wine or beer; eat no ritually > unclean foods. She's to observe everything I commanded her." > > 15 Manoah said to the angel of God, "Please, stay with us a little longer; > we'll prepare a meal for > you-a young goat." > > 16 God's angel said to Manoah, "Even if I stay, I won't eat your food. But > if you want to prepare a > Whole-Burnt-Offering for God, go ahead-offer it!" Manoah > had no idea that he was talking to the angel of God. > > 17 Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words > come true, we'd like to > honor you." > > 18 The angel of God said, "What's this? You ask for my name? You wouldn't > understand-it's sheer > wonder." > > 19-21 So Manoah took the kid and the Grain-Offering and sacrificed them on > a rock altar to God who > works wonders. As the flames leapt up from the altar > to heaven, God's angel also ascended in the altar flames. When Manoah and > his wife saw this, they > fell facedown to the ground. Manoah and his wife never > saw the angel of God again. > > 21-22 Only then did Manoah realize that this was God's angel. He said to > his wife, "We're as good > as dead! We've looked on God!" > > 23 But his wife said, "If God were planning to kill us, he wouldn't have > accepted our > Whole-Burnt-Offering and Grain-Offering, or revealed all these things > to us-given us this birth announcement." > > 24-25 The woman gave birth to a son. They named him Samson. The boy grew > and God blessed him. The > Spirit of God began working in him while he was staying > at a Danite camp between Zorah and Eshtaol. > > Judges 14 > 1-2 Samson went down to Timnah. There in Timnah a woman caught his eye, a > Philistine girl. He came > back and told his father and mother, "I saw a woman > in Timnah, a Philistine girl; get her for me as my wife." > > 3 His parents said to him, "Isn't there a woman among the girls in the > neighborhood of our people? > Do you have to go get a wife from the uncircumcised > Philistines?" > > But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me. She's the one I want- > she's the right one." > > 4 (His father and mother had no idea that God was behind this, that he was > arranging an opportunity > against the Philistines. At the time the Philistines > lorded it over Israel.) > > 5-6 Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. When he got to > the vineyards of Timnah, > a young lion came at him, roaring. The Spirit of God > came on him powerfully and he ripped it open barehanded, like tearing a > young goat. But he didn't > tell his parents what he had done. > > 7 Then he went on down and spoke to the woman. In Samson's eyes, she was > the one. > > 8-9 Some days later when he came back to get her, he made a little detour > to look at what was left > of the lion. And there a wonder: a swarm of bees in > the lion's carcass-and honey! He scooped it up in his hands and kept > going, eating as he went. He > rejoined his father and mother and gave some to them > and they ate. But he didn't tell them that he had scooped out the honey > from the lion's carcass. > > 10-11 His father went on down to make arrangements with the woman, while > Samson prepared a feast > there. That's what the young men did in those days. Because > the people were wary of him, they arranged for thirty friends to mingle > with him. > > 12-13 Samson said to them: "Let me put a riddle to you. If you can figure > it out during the seven > days of the feast, I'll give you thirty linen garments > and thirty changes of fine clothing. But if you can't figure it out then > you'll give me thirty linen > garments and thirty changes of fine clothing." > > 13-14 They said, "Put your riddle. Let's hear it." So he said, > From the eater came something to eat, > From the strong came something sweet. > > 14-15 They couldn't figure it out. After three days they were still > stumped. On the fourth day they > said to Samson's bride, "Worm the answer out of your > husband or we'll burn you and your father's household. Have you invited us > here to bankrupt us?" > > 16 So Samson's bride turned on the tears, saying to him, "You hate me. You > don't love me. You've > told a riddle to my people but you won't even tell me > the answer." > > He said, "I haven't told my own parents-why would I tell you?" > > 17 But she turned on the tears all the seven days of the feast. On the > seventh day, worn out by her > nagging, he told her. Then she went and told it to > her people. > > 18 The men of the town came to him on the seventh day, just before sunset > and said, > What is sweeter than honey? > What is stronger than a lion? > And Samson said, > If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, > You wouldn't have found out my riddle. > > 19-20 Then the Spirit of God came powerfully on him. He went down to > Ashkelon and killed thirty of > their men, stripped them, and gave their clothing to > those who had solved the riddle. Stalking out, smoking with anger, he went > home to his father's > house. Samson's bride became the wife of the best man at > his wedding. > > Judges 15 > 1-2 Later on-it was during the wheat harvest-Samson visited his bride, > bringing a young goat. He > said, "Let me see my wife-show me her bedroom." > > But her father wouldn't let him in. He said, "I concluded that by now > you hated her with a > passion, so I gave her to your best man. But her little sister > is even more beautiful. Why not take her instead?" > > 3 Samson said, "That does it. This time when I wreak havoc on the > Philistines, I'm blameless." > > 4-5 Samson then went out and caught three hundred jackals. He lashed the > jackals' tails together in > pairs and tied a torch between each pair of tails. > He then set fire to the torches and let them loose in the Philistine > fields of ripe grain. > Everything burned, both stacked and standing grain, vineyards > and olive orchards-everything. > > 6 The Philistines said, "Who did this?" > > They were told, "Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite who took his bride > and gave her to his best > man." > > The Philistines went up and burned both her and her father to death. > > 7 Samson then said, "If this is the way you're going to act, I swear I'll > get even with you. And > I'm not quitting till the job's done!" > > 8 With that he tore into them, ripping them limb from limb-a huge > slaughter. Then he went down and > stayed in a cave at Etam Rock. > > 9-10 The Philistines set out and made camp in Judah, preparing to attack > Lehi (Jawbone). When the > men of Judah asked, "Why have you come up against us?" > they said, "We're out to get Samson. We're going after Samson to do to him > what he did to us." > > 11 Three companies of men from Judah went down to the cave at Etam Rock > and said to Samson, "Don't > you realize that the Philistines already bully and lord > it over us? So what's going on with you, making things even worse?" > > He said, "It was tit for tat. I only did to them what they did to me." > > 12 They said, "Well, we've come down here to tie you up and turn you over > to the Philistines." > > Samson said, "Just promise not to hurt me." > > 13 "We promise," they said. "We will tie you up and surrender you to them > but, believe us, we won't > kill you." They proceeded to tie him with new ropes > and led him up from the Rock. > > 14-16 As he approached Lehi, the Philistines came to meet him, shouting in > triumph. And then the > Spirit of God came on him with great power. The ropes > on his arms fell apart like flax on fire; the thongs slipped off his > hands. He spotted a fresh > donkey jawbone, reached down and grabbed it, and with it > killed the whole company. And Samson said, > With a donkey's jawbone > I made heaps of donkeys of them. > With a donkey's jawbone > I killed an entire company. > > 17 When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone. He named that > place Ramath Lehi (Jawbone > Hill). > > 18-19 Now he was suddenly very thirsty. He called out to God, "You have > given your servant this > great victory. Are you going to abandon me to die of thirst > and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" So God split open the rock > basin in Lehi; water > gushed out and Samson drank. His spirit revived-he was alive > again! That's why it's called En Hakkore (Caller's Spring). It's still > there at Lehi today. > > 20 Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines. > > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
