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Philistine Leadership Destroyed

"Now the rulers of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, saying, 'Our god has delivered Samson, our enemy, into our hands.'"
(Judges 16:23)

Dagon was not a real god!
The Philistines did not notice that Samson's hair had grown.
Samson asked to be lead to the pillars that held up the temple.
"Samson said, 'Let me die with the Philistines!'
Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived."
(v. 30)

Samson was not perfect, but he was mentioned in Hebrews 11 as being one of God's faithful men.

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