Showed this to my dad (he teaches religion at a catholic high school), he saved it to show to his students. You're always such an engaging storyteller, love this channel!
As a christian who has heard this story many times in church (and with many of the finer details glossed over) i really enjoyed hearing it retold in your style!
@@drekfletch I know :P I was trying to agree with him and illustrate the point with a reference :), but thank you for revealing my lack of clarity. Props for doing it respectfully, it would have been easy to lash out online. I was in no way trying to be argumentative. I thought Jonah's point was witty and hilarious but also (I believe) true and wanted to showcase that. Long comment lol sorry. Much love and respect.
@@Gildagnir I love how you thank this person for being respectfull on the internet. Maybe if we all did that, we could make the internet a better place trough positive reïnforcement!
It’s interesting to see a bible story told from a perspective like this. So far you’ve done a good job respecting the source material and those who genuinely believe it (as I do), while still adapting the story to your style, and I can’t help but congratulate you on that. Well done again.
Can you explain to me what the point of the story is? Most famous Biblical stories have some larger message to communicate but I can't figure what this one is.
@@AlexJ1 It's about showing just how awesome god is to give someone super strength to allow him to kill in his name because he feels like it. Though I think the old testament called god yahweh? As far as I know most christians don't care much for the old testament cos it's full of wonderfully insane crap like this and doesn't really appeal to their better nature. At least I hope they don't. You can believe Bullshit from a bible but at least have the bullshit have some moral profound lessons to teach, rather than just wanton genocide like ol samson.
I love how the original comment mentions how glad the poster id that Kingsmill respects the source material, then some wanker just comes in an starts yelling about the Bible being bullshit. You wonder why you have trouble talking with Christians when there are people like Mad Hatter that fo dtuff like this.
@@AlexJ1 Generally it's used as a fairly generic "God can do incredibly awesome things (sterile woman gives birth, man has super strength)" story. However, it has the added bonus of "but humans still find a way to fuck everything up cause they're dumb as shit" (seriously, how many times does someone have to say 'How do I make it so I can kill you?' and then do exactly what you say before you actually tell them how to kill you?). Maybe that's why we don't see so many miracles in the modern age... It's not one of the more popular stories cause other stories have the "God is powerful" message without the "humans are incredibly stupid" message.
I've always wondered if Samson thought that cutting his hair would actually sap his strength. He had, after all, not been GREAT at keeping the Nazerite vows, and things hadn't changed for him. I think he knew this was closer than any of the crap he had told Delilah up to this point, but I'm not sure he thought this would work either. Turns out, though, that if you arrogantly assume you are invulnerable, one of these days, at least in the world of this story, the one giving you the strength might decide to withdraw his support.
Apparently that song has an alternate translation, since heap sounds a lot like donkey in Jewish. Which would make it go like this; With a donkey’s jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey’s jawbone I have killed a thousand men. Which has the added benefit of rhyming.
Samson & Delilah is just one of many bizarre stories relayed in the book of Judges. And it is by no means even the most depraved by our contemporary sensibilities. As a youth i read Judges as a weird assortment of morbid tales that never seemed to quite make a larger narrative. When i went back & read it again as an adult, after i had a few decades behind me to screw up my life in, Judges possessed thunderbolt clarity! The pages screamed the underlying theme of all the f*@% up shit that happens when every one is a law unto themselves, "doing right" in their own eyes. Yet it also is already foreshadowing the coming experience, where under the rule of kings everything would still be just about the same; because instead of each man "doing right" by his own inner guide, he will be "doing right" according to the whim of the king. But hey, it's all good, because, either way we're all still "doing right". Right? No chance of things ending in this day & age like they ended up in Judges! Right? :P Dael, TY so much for your retelling of this one! Loved it! :)
"But the hair on his head began to grow again." The story was about how Samson lived his life recklessly and constantly failed to keep his Nazarite vows, and how God forgave and kept him strong despite his shortcomings.
A good telling 👍 I actually have really strong feelings about Sampson's story, because as a kid it was definitely pitched to me as "holy super strength, isn't that cool?" But it's definitely included in scripture as part of a running list of judges who were the absolute worst and failed at every part of their job. Definitely blew some kids minds when I taught a bunch of students what Sampson actually did.
Great video! Sampson/Todd the vegan superpower evil X. 😂😂😂 I think it’s important to note here too that Sampson didn’t lose his Demi god strength because his hair was cut, it was because a series of bad choices that lead him to that point. I mean he was told what he could and couldn’t do and he explicitly screwed off and did all the things he was told not to do. God set that final boundary like “BRUH I DUN TOLD YOU 3 FRRRRRRIGGIN TIMES!”
Loved this retelling, lots of humor. Fun fact, in Old Testament times Names had power, and if the angel told his name then Sampson's parents would think they had power over the angel (I guess to summon him at will or something). So the angel essentially scolds them for asking and doesn't tell them.
Not once did Samson think “gee, why do all the Philistines keep coming in once I’ve been tied up. Strange how that keeps happening.” Yes Samson that is strange. Very strange
My guess: Ever since the whole "killing 1000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass" debacle, the Philistines have been coming to attack Samson basically every week for twenty years. "Nothing of note" happened in 20 years, because "Samson kills loads of Philistines" stops being particularly noteworthy after a while. So for anyone else, Philistines coming to attack immediately after one's "weakness" gets revealed would be a suspicious situation. For Samson, it was Tuesday.
This is definitely his kink, she ties him up, bond villain style, he acts helpless, the philistines come in, he busts out and brains them all. They get freaky in the room full of corpses... Ain't no kink shaming here.
@@PyrotechNick77 Say it with me. You don't need to be a bard to sing songs. You don't need to be a paladin to be nice. You don't need to be a warlock to use fel magic. You don't need to be a wizard to think twice.
I had to look up that little song, and it's slightly cooler in Hebrew :P (just going with Israeli Hebrew) "bilchi hachamor, chamor chamoratayim; bilchi hachamor, hiketi 'elef 'ish" where "chamor" is both "donkey" and "heaps/piles", so he's even throwing some wordplay in there, just to be extra weird :P
Yay for stories! As a Christian, I don't believe that this qualifies as mythology, but hearing you tell a story from the Bible was an unexpected treat. (P.S. I think it took more than a few days for the bees to establish their hive and produce the honey.)
As a raised Catholic, I've never heard this story and it is BUCK WILD! Also, as Samson killed SO many people, why would he stay with Delilah if she is CLEARLY trying to kill him. Dale: "You know" 😉
In the book of Judges? Absolutely! Btw, hint for a longer life, make sure you've used _all_ the tent pegs before going to sleep in a tent... (Judges 4)
I would say that killing someone would definitely count as touching a corpse. Though I am more interested in why the bees thought that a lion carcass was a good home. That's some surprising similarities to the story of Aristaeus.
@@crabbit2397 Nah mate it's just a misunderstanding on Samsons part, he actually ate dead lion fluids and thought it tasted sweet because he's a wacko.
@@PyrotechNick77 Thanks for that reference! I knew there was another story Dael had told (back in the day) that involved bees and corpses, but I couldn't remember which one--or any other details about it, really. But it was definitely Aristaeus!
So, okay, are we certain that Samson isn’t like related to, or some kind of allegory for, a Greek demigod? Cause he sure shows the emotional maturity of a demigod. I had heard some of the story previously (admittedly through Pinky and the Brain), but damn, Samson is . . . something else XD Great story!
There are those who think Samson and Heracles might have a common root, and in my (highly inexpert) estimation the timeline matches up for the stories to be contemporary-ish.
Now, I can't stop thinking of Brandon Routh politely asking for someone's daughter's hand in marriage, only with blood-covered hands and lion's guts on his shirt.
I love the image of Samson doing all this killing with super-long hair. I mean, he's at least 35 by the end, so his hair probably drags on the ground like a Heracles-Rapunzel hybrid.. Unless he keeps his hair trimmed by burning the ends. hrmmm...
I feel I need to say, as a matter of course, that Biblical stories usually portray totally human people being totally human. You know how we slag off at Zeus for sleeping around and Hera for punishing the girls he slept with? Bible stories are usually the same sort of events, but not committed by gods, but by normal humans. Humans - even ones who served God - could do things in honour of God, but then turn around and do something totally crappy - see the tale of King David sending a guy to the front line of a war just so David could sleep with the guy's wife. So yeah, Bible stories are morality tales. Lots of mythology and folklore is moral tales. Biblical tales tend to be "This person served God, but did something dumb, and bad resulted, but when they returned to being faithful to God, good happened to them".
Modern Archeology has discovered that our general use of Philistines as degenerates, or savages, or low cultured is very effective biblical propaganda. The Philistines were some of the most advanced, cultured, and articulate people in that region during the time of Samson.
I've always found the slaying of 1000 men with the jawbone of an donkey (ass) the hardest part of the story of Samson to believe. Think about it. He's just killed 990 men, you'd think the last ten or so would have the sense to run.
I imagine the story of Samson’s story was passed through oral tradition, because I feel that something if not a lot of things were lost in translation xD cause this story is just batshit crazy lol
ironically, the biblical texts were painstakingly copied with virtually no errors for millennia. The modern translations are taken directly from the original Hebrew as well, meaning that there's only one layer of translation to English, and cross referenced with several different ancient copies to ensure accuracy. So...it was probably always that batshit crazy. xD
I'm pretty sure the 'no touchy corpse' rule only applies to human corpses.. But then I don't understand how he can murder 30 people ... Anyways, ripping apart a lion is fine.. it's TOTALLY fine, well adjusted.. completely fine.
The point of not touching a corpse was to keep the Israelites from getting diseased. It definitely doesn't count if it's at the time of death, but they were to be wary if it's been dead for a while. How long? Intentionally unspecified.
I don't think much of this story was left out when I heard it as a kid. Everyone was quite clear that Samson was a mass murderer; they just always told the story with the implication that all that killing was somehow a good thing. I was probably age 5 or so. I was told a few years ago some vague thing about how Samson's story is somehow borrowed from Greek mythology. Is there anything to that?
I love that Samson was super-strong and apparently also invulnerable, capable of tearing a lion apart with his bare hands and yet he felt the need to take that donkey's jawbone to arm himself despite it being completely unnecessary.
Well done w this underrated and weird little story. With his riddles and his taunting songs and his modified weapons, this guy is a tavern brawling barbarian bard for real. Dude always talking shit. Killing his enemies and yet the daughters of his enemies still be wanting some of that action. Rips a lion apart. Rips away city gates... Dude had a minus in wisdom, but a fuck ton of charisma. It’s the best of biblical mythology imo. I only don’t really buy being deceived by Delilah four times-I mean could he not see the pattern?! What an idiot. But a bossy fucked up one. Went out like a champ
@@snakesonthismondaytofriday1750 I'm talking about the modern christianity that says that the book of judges is a historical account, and that sampson was the good guy because "he fought the evil vile philistines"
You don't happen to just want to move to Germany apropos of nothing and marry a guy you've never met but who you happen to make laugh a lot, would you? I mean it'd be very fitting, sounds like a fairy tale if I ever heard one. Although I hope it wouldn't end that badly. :'D
Florida Man burns down wheat fields using pack of flaming foxes as retaliation of his former fiancee being auctioned off at their wedding
Florida Man breaks free of bondage ropes, kills home invaders
Showed this to my dad (he teaches religion at a catholic high school), he saved it to show to his students. You're always such an engaging storyteller, love this channel!
I have been a christian for Years, and not once has anyone said "samson, like a morbid Winnie the Pooh." Highlight of my year tbh
Look, it's the Philistines. Oh bother.
I completely agree with this statement 😂
Strange beings hanging around childless couples distributing promises of super strong babies is not a basis for a valid pregnancy test
Depends on the being I suppose
Just because some flying tart hands you a baby doesn't make you mother of anything
At least Samson used Firefox instead of I.E.
elmao
Darn it. Beat me to it.
As a christian who has heard this story many times in church (and with many of the finer details glossed over) i really enjoyed hearing it retold in your style!
If I had my way... I would tear this whole building down
Just a minor correction: Biblical angels did not look scary as Hell.
They were scary as Heaven
Revelation 4:8 seraphim sound terrifying....6 wings eyes all over their bodies
@@Gildagnir Jonah's point is that they're still scary, yes. But they're Heaven-scary, not Hell-scary.
@@drekfletch I know :P I was trying to agree with him and illustrate the point with a reference :), but thank you for revealing my lack of clarity. Props for doing it respectfully, it would have been easy to lash out online. I was in no way trying to be argumentative. I thought Jonah's point was witty and hilarious but also (I believe) true and wanted to showcase that. Long comment lol sorry. Much love and respect.
@@Gildagnir I love how you thank this person for being respectfull on the internet. Maybe if we all did that, we could make the internet a better place trough positive reïnforcement!
@@vitalskisnauwaert509 agreed brother.
It’s interesting to see a bible story told from a perspective like this. So far you’ve done a good job respecting the source material and those who genuinely believe it (as I do), while still adapting the story to your style, and I can’t help but congratulate you on that. Well done again.
Can you explain to me what the point of the story is? Most famous Biblical stories have some larger message to communicate but I can't figure what this one is.
@@AlexJ1 It's about showing just how awesome god is to give someone super strength to allow him to kill in his name because he feels like it.
Though I think the old testament called god yahweh?
As far as I know most christians don't care much for the old testament cos it's full of wonderfully insane crap like this and doesn't really appeal to their better nature.
At least I hope they don't. You can believe Bullshit from a bible but at least have the bullshit have some moral profound lessons to teach, rather than just wanton genocide like ol samson.
I love how the original comment mentions how glad the poster id that Kingsmill respects the source material, then some wanker just comes in an starts yelling about the Bible being bullshit.
You wonder why you have trouble talking with Christians when there are people like Mad Hatter that fo dtuff like this.
@@nerdherd1819 Are you able to answer my question?
@@AlexJ1 Generally it's used as a fairly generic "God can do incredibly awesome things (sterile woman gives birth, man has super strength)" story.
However, it has the added bonus of "but humans still find a way to fuck everything up cause they're dumb as shit" (seriously, how many times does someone have to say 'How do I make it so I can kill you?' and then do exactly what you say before you actually tell them how to kill you?). Maybe that's why we don't see so many miracles in the modern age...
It's not one of the more popular stories cause other stories have the "God is powerful" message without the "humans are incredibly stupid" message.
I've always wondered if Samson thought that cutting his hair would actually sap his strength. He had, after all, not been GREAT at keeping the Nazerite vows, and things hadn't changed for him. I think he knew this was closer than any of the crap he had told Delilah up to this point, but I'm not sure he thought this would work either. Turns out, though, that if you arrogantly assume you are invulnerable, one of these days, at least in the world of this story, the one giving you the strength might decide to withdraw his support.
I love how quickly this escalates
Apparently that song has an alternate translation, since heap sounds a lot like donkey in Jewish.
Which would make it go like this;
With a donkey’s jawbone
I have made donkeys of them.
With a donkey’s jawbone
I have killed a thousand men.
Which has the added benefit of rhyming.
And they say the Bible isn't applicable nowadays: they have a lesson about not being a simp, people!
Samson & Delilah is just one of many bizarre stories relayed in the book of Judges. And it is by no means even the most depraved by our contemporary sensibilities. As a youth i read Judges as a weird assortment of morbid tales that never seemed to quite make a larger narrative. When i went back & read it again as an adult, after i had a few decades behind me to screw up my life in, Judges possessed thunderbolt clarity! The pages screamed the underlying theme of all the f*@% up shit that happens when every one is a law unto themselves, "doing right" in their own eyes. Yet it also is already foreshadowing the coming experience, where under the rule of kings everything would still be just about the same; because instead of each man "doing right" by his own inner guide, he will be "doing right" according to the whim of the king. But hey, it's all good, because, either way we're all still "doing right". Right? No chance of things ending in this day & age like they ended up in Judges! Right? :P
Dael, TY so much for your retelling of this one! Loved it! :)
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This is seriously my favorite telling of this story. You really nailed the absolute weirdness of the story... good lord.
"But the hair on his head began to grow again."
The story was about how Samson lived his life recklessly and constantly failed to keep his Nazarite vows, and how God forgave and kept him strong despite his shortcomings.
Musical comedian Tim Hawkins sings his version of "Hey There Delilah" where he tells this story.
Some say Samson didn't give any fox, but he certainly did.
*Badadumsh!*
A good telling 👍
I actually have really strong feelings about Sampson's story, because as a kid it was definitely pitched to me as "holy super strength, isn't that cool?" But it's definitely included in scripture as part of a running list of judges who were the absolute worst and failed at every part of their job. Definitely blew some kids minds when I taught a bunch of students what Sampson actually did.
Great video! Sampson/Todd the vegan superpower evil X. 😂😂😂
I think it’s important to note here too that Sampson didn’t lose his Demi god strength because his hair was cut, it was because a series of bad choices that lead him to that point. I mean he was told what he could and couldn’t do and he explicitly screwed off and did all the things he was told not to do. God set that final boundary like “BRUH I DUN TOLD YOU 3 FRRRRRRIGGIN TIMES!”
Loved this retelling, lots of humor. Fun fact, in Old Testament times Names had power, and if the angel told his name then Sampson's parents would think they had power over the angel (I guess to summon him at will or something). So the angel essentially scolds them for asking and doesn't tell them.
Always interesting to see the differences between the King James version and the original Hebrew text :P
My mother told me and my brother this story.
Ahhh...Bible stories. They're so inspiring, uplifting and down right wholesome! Fun for the whole family!
It's so easy to forget how messed up the Samson story is. Nicely told.
this sounds uncannily like a bad DnD adventure, especially when the barbarian Samson kills 30 innocent villagers
A barbarian who thinks he is a paladin but was meant to be a cleric?
Unit Jax and somehow multiclasses into bard for a level.
Just wait till the DM springs the "now collect 100 foreskins of your enemies" sidequest during the David story arc.
There are no innocent villagers! ;)
Not once did Samson think “gee, why do all the Philistines keep coming in once I’ve been tied up. Strange how that keeps happening.” Yes Samson that is strange. Very strange
That's what dumping both intelligence and wisdom is like.
My guess: Ever since the whole "killing 1000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass" debacle, the Philistines have been coming to attack Samson basically every week for twenty years. "Nothing of note" happened in 20 years, because "Samson kills loads of Philistines" stops being particularly noteworthy after a while.
So for anyone else, Philistines coming to attack immediately after one's "weakness" gets revealed would be a suspicious situation. For Samson, it was Tuesday.
@@Bluecho4 Makes you wonder how many freaking Philistines were in that temple, if it was more than he killed in his whole life.
This is definitely his kink, she ties him up, bond villain style, he acts helpless, the philistines come in, he busts out and brains them all.
They get freaky in the room full of corpses... Ain't no kink shaming here.
Samson, the original D&D barbarian.
Osanne and with one level in bard for that song.
@@PyrotechNick77 Say it with me.
You don't need to be a bard to sing songs.
You don't need to be a paladin to be nice.
You don't need to be a warlock to use fel magic.
You don't need to be a wizard to think twice.
I had to look up that little song, and it's slightly cooler in Hebrew :P (just going with Israeli Hebrew) "bilchi hachamor, chamor chamoratayim; bilchi hachamor, hiketi 'elef 'ish" where "chamor" is both "donkey" and "heaps/piles", so he's even throwing some wordplay in there, just to be extra weird :P
Cool!
Your story telling is as remarkable as ever. You have such a flare for this, and you are getting prettier and prettier.
Yes. Touching a corpse you killed counts.
Yay for stories! As a Christian, I don't believe that this qualifies as mythology, but hearing you tell a story from the Bible was an unexpected treat. (P.S. I think it took more than a few days for the bees to establish their hive and produce the honey.)
that was bloody hilarious, gj
As a raised Catholic, I've never heard this story and it is BUCK WILD!
Also, as Samson killed SO many people, why would he stay with Delilah if she is CLEARLY trying to kill him.
Dale: "You know" 😉
Bonus points for the Scott Pilgrim reference =D
You missed the part where he's hauling those city gates around.
This is the best thing every, sharing to every friend, all seven of them
Genia
Man I love an in focus background
Blurry Dale FTW
Man. I did not know what I was missing with this story. Are all bible stories this wild?
In the book of Judges? Absolutely! Btw, hint for a longer life, make sure you've used _all_ the tent pegs before going to sleep in a tent... (Judges 4)
Who in the hell threw flaming foxes into our wheat feilds?! 😂
I love how insane this mythology is compared to the others I've seen from you. Christianity FTW!
Love that murder song. Classic Samson. Lol.
You should do more of these mythology vids. You have a knack for it.
Always fun to hear your spin on stories I know.
"...we know..."
I would say that killing someone would definitely count as touching a corpse. Though I am more interested in why the bees thought that a lion carcass was a good home. That's some surprising similarities to the story of Aristaeus.
Yay!! I love your videos. Having my breakfast and coffee with this. Thank you!
Now i got to reread this thank you for this awsome video i could listen to u telling stories all day.
Awesome! Thanks so much. Just read that bit in Scripture recently. Your vid really helped get behind it all! :)
She might just be blurry, like Bigfoot
Yay! Scott Pilgrim references!!!
Forget super strength, where can I get some of these magic bees that can build a hive and make a bunch of honey in two days?
StubbornProgrammer Samson should inform Aristaeus know about these special bees.
It was probably a lot longer than a couple of days.
@@crabbit2397 Nah mate it's just a misunderstanding on Samsons part, he actually ate dead lion fluids and thought it tasted sweet because he's a wacko.
@@Madhattersinjeans That's gross! Funny, but gross!.
@@PyrotechNick77 Thanks for that reference! I knew there was another story Dael had told (back in the day) that involved bees and corpses, but I couldn't remember which one--or any other details about it, really. But it was definitely Aristaeus!
Bloody hell, he was a maniac.
Now I understand why people said you missed a Firefox joke.
How i will cast revivify if i cant touch a dead body?
Does anyone here remember that old cartoon about this story from the show “stories from the Bible.” Lolol
Dael really should replace most boring story tellers, those mannerismes are supreme
Very catchy! 😂
So many bible stories are perfect for a hardcore fantasy campaign.
Do a video on Alexander and Hepheastion please!
I'm pretty sure lion-carcass honey isn't vegan. Not even vegetarian.
So, okay, are we certain that Samson isn’t like related to, or some kind of allegory for, a Greek demigod? Cause he sure shows the emotional maturity of a demigod.
I had heard some of the story previously (admittedly through Pinky and the Brain), but damn, Samson is . . . something else XD Great story!
There are those who think Samson and Heracles might have a common root, and in my (highly inexpert) estimation the timeline matches up for the stories to be contemporary-ish.
MonarchsFactory Ah, I see. That would seem to make sense. Thanks! 👍🏼
Now, I can't stop thinking of Brandon Routh politely asking for someone's daughter's hand in marriage, only with blood-covered hands and lion's guts on his shirt.
I love the image of Samson doing all this killing with super-long hair. I mean, he's at least 35 by the end, so his hair probably drags on the ground like a Heracles-Rapunzel hybrid.. Unless he keeps his hair trimmed by burning the ends. hrmmm...
Love the Scott pilgrim reference
"...... we know.... we know" ajajajjajaj ah we need more humans like this in americas school system
I learnt that Samson was into bondage I feel this is best way to start my day
I'm curious about Firefly: The Game...
Hahaha, love the Scott Pilgrim reference
I feel I need to say, as a matter of course, that Biblical stories usually portray totally human people being totally human. You know how we slag off at Zeus for sleeping around and Hera for punishing the girls he slept with? Bible stories are usually the same sort of events, but not committed by gods, but by normal humans.
Humans - even ones who served God - could do things in honour of God, but then turn around and do something totally crappy - see the tale of King David sending a guy to the front line of a war just so David could sleep with the guy's wife.
So yeah, Bible stories are morality tales. Lots of mythology and folklore is moral tales. Biblical tales tend to be "This person served God, but did something dumb, and bad resulted, but when they returned to being faithful to God, good happened to them".
0:16, "it is a bonkers story" is religion, and most stories told within, in a nutshell.
Modern Archeology has discovered that our general use of Philistines as degenerates, or savages, or low cultured is very effective biblical propaganda. The Philistines were some of the most advanced, cultured, and articulate people in that region during the time of Samson.
We need to know more about Samson's bear-hands! Were they furry? Did they have claws???
Let's pause to discuss these paws
No chance, no way I won't say it no no! ....
I've always found the slaying of 1000 men with the jawbone of an donkey (ass) the hardest part of the story of Samson to believe. Think about it. He's just killed 990 men, you'd think the last ten or so would have the sense to run.
Samson sounds like he had some serious problems.
I imagine the story of Samson’s story was passed through oral tradition, because I feel that something if not a lot of things were lost in translation xD cause this story is just batshit crazy lol
ironically, the biblical texts were painstakingly copied with virtually no errors for millennia. The modern translations are taken directly from the original Hebrew as well, meaning that there's only one layer of translation to English, and cross referenced with several different ancient copies to ensure accuracy. So...it was probably always that batshit crazy. xD
"I'm sure that this will go down well."
scary as heaven*
"We know..."
I'm pretty sure the 'no touchy corpse' rule only applies to human corpses.. But then I don't understand how he can murder 30 people ... Anyways, ripping apart a lion is fine.. it's TOTALLY fine, well adjusted.. completely fine.
The point of not touching a corpse was to keep the Israelites from getting diseased.
It definitely doesn't count if it's at the time of death, but they were to be wary if it's been dead for a while. How long? Intentionally unspecified.
You've got to love Old Testament logic.
The word for corpse means that of a human
Wait...why did he let her tie him up? And what is with all these jars of mayonnaise?!
this story just seven random stories all rolled in to one
I don't think much of this story was left out when I heard it as a kid. Everyone was quite clear that Samson was a mass murderer; they just always told the story with the implication that all that killing was somehow a good thing. I was probably age 5 or so.
I was told a few years ago some vague thing about how Samson's story is somehow borrowed from Greek mythology. Is there anything to that?
I doubt it, I am pretty sure the Greeks came after this time period.
Dael's Str: ?
Str required to tear a goat: 14
Str required to tear a lion: 18 maybe?
Heracles' Str: 22
Dael's Str: 7
Why just "hello humans"? What about dwarves and halflings? U.U
I love that Samson was super-strong and apparently also invulnerable, capable of tearing a lion apart with his bare hands and yet he felt the need to take that donkey's jawbone to arm himself despite it being completely unnecessary.
He needed the survivors to tell how their best men got annihilated by some nutter with a jawbone
Well done w this underrated and weird little story.
With his riddles and his taunting songs and his modified weapons, this guy is a tavern brawling barbarian bard for real. Dude always talking shit. Killing his enemies and yet the daughters of his enemies still be wanting some of that action. Rips a lion apart. Rips away city gates...
Dude had a minus in wisdom, but a fuck ton of charisma. It’s the best of biblical mythology imo. I only don’t really buy being deceived by Delilah four times-I mean could he not see the pattern?! What an idiot. But a bossy fucked up one. Went out like a champ
when you realize that Sampson is supposed to be the good guy
@@snakesonthismondaytofriday1750 I'm talking about the modern christianity that says that the book of judges is a historical account, and that sampson was the good guy because "he fought the evil vile philistines"
You don't happen to just want to move to Germany apropos of nothing and marry a guy you've never met but who you happen to make laugh a lot, would you? I mean it'd be very fitting, sounds like a fairy tale if I ever heard one. Although I hope it wouldn't end that badly. :'D
Hilarious 😂
On the subject of what exactly counts as "touching a corpse"...Let's say you eat a steak, does that count?
When I was a child my favourite parts were his shithouse lies. Not believable at all
Wow why do you want to tear apart goats so badly.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the story of the very first suicide terrorist of Christianity.
Chicken isn't Vegan?!?!
"Chicken isn't vegan?" LOL