When Sampson in Judges 16 killed those 3000 people was it sin, or with Gods blessing?

Question

eye for an eye, 3000 philistines for 2 eyes, justice? let the lord's will be done? or sin.

I read it and I think he acted alone, he asked for God's blessing but I don't read where God granted him any sort of permission.

Answer 1

It's just a story. Next time you read it, have some popcorn and soda ready.

Answer 2

Samson himself was a curse on the philistines who were long time enemies of Israel. Killing the 2000 soldiers, tearing down their giant gates and carrying them off, burning their fields, and numerous other things were all Samson's ideas. The betrayal of his Philistine love interest and capture was I am sure planned by God. It was a secure way for the Philistines to trust bringing him into their main temple when they thought he was weak and blind. Then bind him in front of their main god which happen to be the two pillars the entire structure depended on.

Answer 3

He asked God for the strength so no.

Judges 16:28 (Whole Chapter)
Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "Sovereign LORD, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me one more time so that I may pay back the Philistines for the loss of my eyes."

Judges 16:29 (Whole Chapter)
Then Samson put his hands on the center pillars of the temple and pushed against them with all his might.

Answer 4

Not sure, but I would say it Samson acted in God's interest by destroying the temple of an idol and its followers. Not the only time that occurs in the OT, including the Jews themselves in exile (after they desecrated the Temple by worshiping Babylonian idols & had human infant sacrifice at teh asherah pole in teh valley behind the Temple.).

Answer 5

There are two types of punishment God dispenses: temporal and eternal. Temporal punishment is like a spanking, and eternal punishment is like the worst possible death sentence one could imagine. The means of eternal punishment is the lake of fire best known as "Hell." There are too many means of temporal punishment to list here. Sometimes God punished directly, sometimes through individuals, sometimes through nations, and sometimes through natural phenomena. As long as the means are obedient to God's will, they should not be considered guilty of obeying His command.

Answer 6

God punished the Israelites frequently with pestilence, enslavement, death, wars, famine. He used other nations to carry out his means for many of those punishments, but he also was clear that they would receive their punishment in due turn for the sinfulness and idolatry in those nations, as well.

Answer 7

k, all you have to think about, is......"If i lead a christian based life, when i get to heaven, i can ask those questions to God, and he will fulfill each one with the correct answer." God knows everything, and if you think about things you dont know, ask God those questions. He will give you the answer.

Answer 8

Samson was a Nazirite from the womb of his mother. So he was not only consecrated for a certain period of his life, but he was consecrated all his life, even prior to conception, to God, but he had one desire that he could not discipline. This desire troubled him all his life and made him face many problems until his demeanor became ungodly.

As a Nazirite, Samson had to honor three standards:
1- He could not touch a dead body
2- He could not shave the hair of his head
3- He could not drink wine, nor touch grapes.

Samson's undisciplined desire was his relationship with women.
Samson didn't use the Spirit that was moving him, to subdue his desire.
Samson failed in his marriage, due to three mistakes:

1- He didn't take the blessings of his parents
2- He based his discion on physical attraction
3- He married a foreigner of foreign faith.

God gave Samson one opportunity after another to repent. Samson who was so strong, and so mighty, was so weak before women. This weakness came from within him. This weakness came from his desires. Again the Philistines knew that he was laying with this woman, the harlot, and wanted to kill him. But God, who is good, once more delivered him, giving him another chance.

Then the third woman appeared in his life he lied to her several times. And whatever he told her, she passed on to the Philistines. But they couldn't over power Samson. Samson, more than once, knew that Delilah was taking his secrets and giving them to his enemy to kill him. Despite this, he insisted to live with her. You know the saying, 'Love is blind', and this was true in Samson's situation. Here 'Love' was desire. When a person is enslaved in his lust and his desire, he becomes blind, and Samson was indeed blind.

It is better for Samson, to suffer the consequences of his wrong decisions. Samson must be confronted with his behavior to know that what he is doing is wrong.(Judges 16:15)

Delilah knew the secret of his strength. She knew that when his hair was shaved, he would lose his power. (Judges 16:18)

"Then the Philistines took him and put out his eyes". (Judges 16:21). Sin blinds. As previously mentioned, Samson was spiritually blind. Now his physical blindness is an affirmation of his spiritual blindness. If he were not spiritually blind, he wouldn't have become physically blind. His desires had controlled him. His desires prevented him from seeing what she was doing. Actually, when the Philistines came and put out his eyes, his physical blindness was originally there, because of his spiritual blindness. Sin made Samson blind.

They also mocked Samson. "So it happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, 'Call for Samson, that he may perform for us'. So they called for Samson from the prison, and he performed for them. And they stationed him between the pillars". (Judges 16:25). The people were sitting, about 3,000 men and women watching him playing and performing. Samson prays for the second time, but this prayer was a prayer of repentance. It was a prayer of awakening. He was alert to his weakest point.

"Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there - about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson performed". (Judges 16:27). And God accepted his repentance, answered his prayer and gave him the power.

Samson was a very strong person, but he had one weak point. This weakness made him blind and bound and also made his life empty (grinding in prison living in a vicious circle). "O Lord God, remember me, I pray! Strengthen me, I pray, just this once, O God, that I may with one blow take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes!" (Judges 16:28).

If Samson had listened to the different lessons that God tried to teach him, if he would have opened his eyes to God's messages, he wouldn't have had to suffer so. God was very compassionate with Samson, just for him to awake. At the end when he chose not to wake up, God had no choice but to submit him to his enemies, to save his soul.

Answer 9

they were evil people, enemies of Isreal, that sort of thing. They were bad, sinfull people, Samson had God's blessing.
it was not murder. he killed them in war.

Answer 10

It must have made the idiot(god) happy.