1. Judges 14:6 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

How does Samson’s method of killing the lion differ from that of previous judges?

Judges 14:6 (ESV)

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.

Previously, Eglon, Shamgar, and Jael killed their victims with improvised weapons: they stabbed, goaded, or hammered (Judges 3:16, Judges 3:31; Judges 4:21). Samson with his bare hands tears his prey to pieces.1