The birth of Samson was predicted by the Angel. Samson was born in the family of Israeli judge Manoy and his beautiful wife, who was barren for a long time. Here is a really fascinating and interesting legend about Samson.

An Angel had appeared in a dream of Samson’s father foreshadowing the birth of an heir who will save all the Judean people from torment and enslavement. But there was a condition that the boy would serve God without sinning, would never drink alcohol and would never cut out his hair. The happy father promised to Angel to fulfill God’s will and raise his son according to this order.

The boy grew unusually strong and courageous, rumors of his heroic strength went throughout the land. There is a legend that when Samson went to the city to his first wife, he met a lion and ripped his mouth with his bare hands and teared him down. Everyone in Judean lands were amazed by his physical strength, they were trying to find out the Samson’s secret powers, but he was incorruptible.

Soon, Samson was appointed judge, and after a few years he already led the enslaved Israeli people against the Philistines. Often he engaged in battle with the Philistines and did not allow them to continue the invasion to the south and seize more and more Jewish lands. There was no end to this war between the two nations.

Samson himself was described as an attractive and amorous man. Women adored him and could not resist him, and he skillfully used their weakness. Once Samson came to the Philistine city of Gaza and met the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah there. She, too, did not differ in godliness and there were rumors that she was sly-minded and dangerous. But despite the rumors, Samson fell deeply in love with her.

The Philistines found out that their worst enemy was in the city, so they decided to lure Samson into a trap: close the main gates of the city and put several dozen armed guards next to them. Waiting for Samson finally leave the city, the guards eventually fell asleep. Samson felt the danger, came out at midnight and killed all the guards, broke the gates of the city and carried them to the mountain. After this he could come to Gaza whenever he wanted to and no man could stop him.

Charming black-eyed beauty named Delilah conquered and completely enchanted Samson, he lost his mental clarity. The Philistines decided to use the delicate position of Samson persuading the harlot to find out the secret of the power.

One night, Delilah started crying talking about wanting to know the secret of Samson. Samson was in doubt, but in the end he finally told the secret that if you cut his hair, all the power will simply disappear. Delilah watered Samson with wine from which he quickly fell asleep and cutted his hair off. Samson was immediately captured and imprisoned.

Blinded and weakened, for several months he remained in prison of the Philistines, who forced him to work at night and came up with new and new punishments. Neither friends, nor relatives of Samson couldn’t set him free from enemies. The Philistines, celebrating the victory over the famous warrior, did not want to listen and continued to mock the fallen hero.

Once in Gaza, where the Philistines kept the hated Israeli giant, they organized a festival. Leaders of the Philistines gathered for a magnificent feast, where they decided to bring Samson, to laugh at him once again. He entered the temple and asked to lead him to the column on which the roof of the building rested. Samson with one movement broke, and the temple collapsed and crashed. Samson killed a lot more enemies of the Judean people, and he died under stones too.

This legend is about the man who was destroyed not by a human or an animal, but by love. Yielding to the temptation, Samson sentenced himself, and emotions took over his mind. And the legend of the most powerful man, who was ruined by blind love for a woman, has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.