Speakers: on
Cue: "Weapon of Choice" by Fatboy Slim
Samson, Samson, Samson. Your stories are among the most-deserving to grace the Epistle of Joe. You truly laid down the smack. And it was great and true.
But it's hard to figure out where to start.
How about 1,000 dead guys? Yeah. That's good. If any of us normal people had to go out slaying Philistines, we'd probably prefer something either semi- or fully automatic. But not Sammy. He likes to use a little muscle. And he uses it with panache.
You know what this is? It's the jawbone of an ass. Samson, he who could not be hurt until his hair was cut, used this little number to slay 1,000 Philistines.Because of a previous run-in Samson had with the 'Stines, a bunch of them tracked him down to bring him back to their land. Samson asked them to swear that they wouldn't tie him up.
Then they were like: "No way." And they tied him up anyway.
And Samson was like: "Watch this."
Judges 15: 15-16
"And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men."
And then he went home.
3 comments:
perhaps he was the original super hero???
I also picture the music from "Iron Man" - music only, no words - along with this post.
Maybe that's just because that's what my 11 year old was playing on the piano while I was reading this. Great blog. It's encouraging my teenage son to dig deeper into the scriptures!
Good thing it was the jawbone of an ass that was handy that day... imagine his dismay had he looked down and saw the jawbone of a rat.
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