Judges 14–16. These chapters, however, record a very small proportion of his life—namely the summer before he became judge and the last year of his life. That Samson served God faithfully is a perspective that must not be obscured even by his manifest sins, for without this perspective—as will be shown later—the meaning of Samson’s life will be seriously misunderstood (cf. Hebrews 11:32). In this study we shall focus upon the rise of this man of God to the judgeship, leaving his decline and fall