In Judges 13:25 the Spirit of the Lord begin to stir
Samson. Now the Spirit rushed
upon him, giving him destructive strength. Samson does not just kill the lion; he tears it in pieces with his bare hands. We see here a significant heightening of the Spirit’s involvement in comparison to the preceding judge narratives. The Spirit came
on Othniel and Jephthah (Judges 3:10; Judges 11:29) and clothed
Gideon (Judges 6:34), but now the Spirit rushes on Samson, here, again in verse Judg 14:19, and once again in Judges 15:14.1
6 Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.