Samson Forfeits his Office (1): A Wicked Plot

by Martyn McGeown In Judges 16 the Philistines have a problem. They had oppressed Israel for many years, but God had raised up Samson against them. In verse 24 they call Samson “Our enemy and the destroyer of many of us.” Samson was unlike anyone whom they had encountered before. He worked alone without an army; yet, he had the strength of many men. He was too strong for them, and he had humiliated them time and time again. But Samson had a weakness, not a physical but a moral weakness. His...