Look at verse 9. After he had killed the lion and messed around in Timnah, he decides to go back into the vineyard to check out his trophy. Maybe he wanted to show some of his friends the lion that he had killed. The Bible says that he walked over to the carcass. He heard the sound of bees. “So he scraped the honey into his hands and went on, eating as he went.” Now in order to do that, he had to touch something dead. He just broke the second of the Nazarite vows. Can’t you just see this guy, covered with the honey he was eating, walking on home? And when he got home the Bible says that he gave some of the honey to his parents but that he didn’t tell his parents where he got the honey. I love what old Warren Wiersbe says. “Samson was a man of faith, but he was not a faithful man.” Everything was exterior, wasn’t it? Everything was up front. There was nothing down deep.
So in verse 10, he decides to throw a party. He is going to have a big bachelor party and none of his Israelite friends, if he had any, even came to this party. His parents did. They were nice enough to go along to the Philistine city. In Biblical times, most people would get married at the groom’s household, but because Samson’s parents were against the marriage, they went ahead and did the deal in the Philistine country.
And women, you thought that soap operas, talk shows and romance novels were exciting. They can’t touch this stuff. They can’t come near it, can they? Samson throws this big feast. Underline the word feast in verse 10. In the Hebrew, it means a drinking bout. Here again, the Nazarite vow comes into play. I don’t get a picture of Samson during this bachelor party standing in the corner sipping Perrier and lime, do you? No. Samson was doing the drinking thing.
Dr. Ed Young- I’ll say, “Oh, God, I can’t be responsible for that because look at all these details, there is no way.”
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