The Need for Samson

942.987 - 973.688 Nathan W. Bingham

There's a panic because it looked like the whole tribe of Benjamin might die out. So the dying out of families in Israel is a very serious matter. And so here, clearly, the parents of Samson are being presented to us as participating in the kind of judgment and chastisement of the Lord upon his people. And you get a sense, I think, that they are very... fatalistic about this. They're resigned.