Let's Wake Up Jacob

Dan Fifth Son of Israel

JACOB BLESSES DAN:

“Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, A viper by the path, That bites the horse’s heels
So that its rider shall fall backward. I have waited for your salvation, O LORD!”

MOSES BLESSES DAN:

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan. Deut 33:22

BILAH FOR RACHEL: (Judged)

And Rachel said, "God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan." Genesis 30:6

Dan and Naphtali's father was Jacob and their mother was Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid.

The tribe of Dan gave us Sampson

They learned and specialized)ers in gold, silver, brass, iron, stone, and in timber, and any manner of graving.

It was an Israelitish woman's (whose father was Egyptian) son from the tribe of Dan that blasphemed the name of the Lord, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses Lev 24:11

And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land. Judges 18:30

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Dan was so jealous of Joseph he wanted to kill him

He later moved to Egypt with his family and brothers because of the famine.

The copy of the words of Dan

He called together his family, and said: Hearken to my words, ye sons of Dan; and give heed to the words of your father. I have proved in my heart, and in my whole life, that truth with just dealing is good and well pleasing to God, and that lying and anger are evil, because they teach man all wickedness.

I confess, therefore, this day to you, my children, that in my heart I resolved on the death of Joseph my brother, the true and good man. [And I rejoiced that he was sold, because his father loved him more than us.] For the spirit of jealousy and vainglory said to me: Thou thyself also art his son.

And one of the spirits of Beliar stirred me up, saying: Take this sword, and with it slay Joseph: so shall thy father love thee when he is dead. Now this is the spirit of anger that persuaded me to crush Joseph as a leopard crusheth a kid But the God of my fathers did not suffer him to fall into my hands, so that I should find him alone and slay him, and cause a second tribe to be destroyed in Israel.
Observe, therefore, my children, the commandments of the Lord, And keep His law; Depart from wrath, And hate lying, That the Lord may dwell among you, And Beliar may flee from you. Speak truth each one with his neighbour. So shall ye not fall into wrath and confusion; But ye shall be in peace, having the God of peace, So shall no war prevail over you.
Love the Lord through all your life, And one another with a true heart. I know that in the last days ye shall depart from the Lord, And ye shall provoke Levi unto anger, And fight against Judah; But ye shall not prevail against them, For an angel of the Lord shall guide them both; For by them shall Israel stand.

And now, my children, behold I am dying, and I tell you of a truth, that unless ye keep yourselves from the spirit of lying and of anger, and love truth and longsuffering, ye shall perish.
For anger is blindness, and does not suffer one to see the face of any man with truth. For though it be a father or a mother, he behaveth towards them as enemies; though it be a brother, he knoweth him not; though it be a prophet of the Lord, he disobeyeth him; though 4 a righteous man, he regardeth him not; though a friend, he doth not acknowledge him. For the spirit of anger encompasseth him with the net of deceit, and blindeth his eyes, and through lying darkeneth his mind, and giveth him its own peculiar vision. With hatred of heart, so as to be envious of his brother.

For anger is an evil thing, my children, for it troubleth even the soul itself

And when he had said these things he kissed them, and fell asleep at a good old age of hundred and twenty-five. And his sons buried him, And after that they carried up his bones, and placed them near Abraham, and 3 Isaac, and Jacob

Samson Kills the Phillistines

Samson: was a strong man. and the Lord blessed him. He said: " With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men."

He caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. **And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.**

Then the Philiistines said: "Who had done this?" And they answered, "Samson"

Samson & Delilah

Samson loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

The Philistines wanted to kill Samson. The offered Delilah eleven hundred peices of silver to find out the secret to his strength.

And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

He told her his strength was in his hair. He said: " If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man".

And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him. Judges 16:19

This is how Samson was detanied and put into prison.

Death of Samson

The Phillistines called for Samson, that he may make sport of him. They called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life. Judges 16:25-