Sampson *

Currently, we are reading the account of Sampson each evening after dinner.  The kids have had some pretty interesting thoughts...

[Robin regarding the Jawbone]:

"So was it like a whole donkey head and Sampson would make it bite their fingers or something?"

[Elliot on the Nazarite vow]:

"My guess is that he could probably sit on his hair."

[Aelsa jumps in]:

"Or maybe he put it in a big ponytail from up high here (pointing to back of her head) so that it stayed off the ground when he walked."

[In the spirit of the exchange I add my two cents]:

"Maybe he piled it up on his head like Marge Simpson..."

[Not to be out-done, Pamela adds]:

"...or maybe he parted it and wore it in big buns on each side of his head" (think Princess Leigha with biceps).




From Hebrews 11

And what more shall I say?

For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets:

who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.



* picture from online French Illustrated Bible