# Samson

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/samson (Enoch Archive).

Samson, of the seed of Dan and son of a handmaiden of Jacob, was announced by an angel as a Nazarite holy to the Lord who would deliver Israel from the Philistines. He was forbidden the razor, flesh, and wine, and was to marry only kin from his father's house. The Cave of Treasures relates that God delivered the Israelites by Samson after forty years of Philistine subjection, and that he ruled them twenty years.

The Kebra Nagast observes that Samson was seduced by a woman. Delilah conceived by Samson and bore a son named Menahem after he died with the Philistines. The seed of Samson reigned over the Philistines.

**books:** The Cave of Treasures; The Kebra Nagast