When movies are made of Samson, they pick a big, muscular man, a person who could play Hercules (yes, someone like Kevin Sorbo). The problem with this is that if that were true, then everyone would know where his strength came from. Samson probably looked more like Jimmy Olsen than Superman. Also, at the beginning of this chapter, Samson, twenty years later, is still doing impossible stuff. (He's also still doing stupid, but that seems to be the norm for him.). He was a truly unlikely hero, or else they wouldn't have been so intent on finding his strength. What they never stopped to consider was that it came from God, but considering his lifestyle, why would they? It's a sad commentary on his life that the Philistines never understood that it was God they needed to fear.
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