Not to Let your Anger Get the best of you
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Samson’s trigger was loosing the wager in the riddle
Samson’s trigger was loosing the wager in the riddle
Samson valued keeping secrets as he was good at keeping them from his parents and we see from his wife.
10 As his father was making final arrangements for the marriage, Samson threw a party at Timnah, as was the custom for elite young men. 11 When the bride’s parents saw him, they selected thirty young men from the town to be his companions. 12 Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle. If you solve my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give you thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing. 13 But if you can’t solve it, then you must give me thirty fine linen robes and thirty sets of festive clothing.” “All right,” they agreed, “let’s hear your riddle.” 14 So he said: “Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet.” Three days later they were still trying to figure it out.
The setting is set a wedding feast for seven days.
Samson’s bride to be family selected thirty men to be companions for the wedding.
Samson proposes a wager with a riddle to the guest.
They have the time of the feast to figure out the riddle.
The Guest become angry and threaten the bridal family.
The Guest become angry and threaten the bridal family.
15 On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle for us, or we will burn down your father’s house with you in it. Did you invite us to this party just to make us poor?”
They feel set up to come and to give what they do not have and to be made poor.
Therefore they are angry and threaten violence to the family.
To burn down the house with the father and bride in the house.
This threat is a precursor for later in the Samson story.
Samson’s betrothed is motivated to get the answer from her husband to be...
16 So Samson’s wife came to him in tears and said, “You don’t love me; you hate me! You have given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even given the answer to my father or mother,” he replied. “Why should I tell you?” 17 So she cried whenever she was with him and kept it up for the rest of the celebration. At last, on the seventh day he told her the answer because she was tormenting him with her nagging. Then she explained the riddle to the young men.
Samson’s Wife breaks him
Samson’s Wife breaks him
She kept crying before him the seven days
Causing embarrassment.
The nagging was persistent.
Samson finally gives in on the last day to give her the riddle.
She explains the riddle to the young men.
Samson loses the wager and has to pay the debt
Samson loses the wager and has to pay the debt
18 So before sunset of the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson with their answer: “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson replied, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have solved my riddle!”
Samson is angered in defeat
Samson is angered in defeat
19 Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to the town of Ashkelon, killed thirty men, took their belongings, and gave their clothing to the men who had solved his riddle. But Samson was furious about what had happened, and he went back home to live with his father and mother. 20 So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon him to strike the town of Ashkelon and killed 30 men to repay the debt.
Samson was angry with his wife and did not go to see her and instead traveled to his Father’s house.
Samon’s wife was given to one of the men in the 30 men.
Samon’s wife was given to one of the men in the 30 men.
Will pick this up next week.
Samson’s anger got the best of him
Samson’s anger got the best of him
Learn to forgive those who hurt you.
Learn to calm yourself down and speak to the ones who hurt you.
Samson anger burned toward his wife to be but he expressed it toward the the 30 men
18 So before sunset of the seventh day, the men of the town came to Samson with their answer: “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” Samson replied, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have solved my riddle!”
Pray to God and seek his peace in your anger
Pray to God and seek his peace in your anger
God can handle your anger.
Note how God gave him power to pay the debt and attack the enemies.
God was still using Samson to strike agains the Philistines for Ashkelon was one of the cities of the Philistine Pentapolis
3 and the larger territory of the Canaanites, extending from the stream of Shihor on the border of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron. It includes the territory of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. The land of the Avvites
Dont give up, turn to God for strength
Dont give up, turn to God for strength
Do not let the sun go down on your anger.
26 And “don’t sin by letting anger control you.” Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry,
Thank God he does not stay angry forever
8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. 9 He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. 10 He does not punish us for all our sins; he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. 11 For his unfailing love toward those who fear him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. 12 He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. 13 The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
Let us pray...