Super Strong Samson

Samson went back to visit his wife, but her dad said, 'I gave her to someone else!' Samson was SO angry!

Samson decided to play a trick on the Philistines. He caught THREE HUNDRED foxes! Can you imagine that? He tied their tails together in pairs and put torches on their tails. Then he let them run through the Philistines' fields. The fire burned up all their crops! No food for them!

The Philistines were very mad. They wanted to catch Samson. Even Samson's own people, the Israelites, were scared. They said, 'Samson, we have to tie you up and give you to the Philistines so they won't be mad at us.'

Samson said okay, but only if they promised not to hurt him themselves. So they tied him up with brand new ropes and took him to the Philistines.

But when the Philistines came shouting, something amazing happened! God's Spirit made Samson SUPER strong. The ropes on his arms just snapped like weak string!

Samson saw a donkey's jawbone on the ground. He picked it up and—WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!—he defeated a THOUSAND Philistines with it! Can you believe it? A thousand men!

After the fight, Samson was really, really thirsty. He prayed to God, 'You gave me this victory, but now I'm so thirsty!'

God heard Samson's prayer! God made water come out of a rock, and Samson drank and felt better.

Samson was learning something important: his strength didn't come from him. It came from GOD! When we trust God and obey Him, He can do amazing things through us!