Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
"One of the greatest values I see in the story of Samson is its demonstration of the Samson Syndrome. This is the tendency among some church leaders to operate from a personal power model and not understand its consequences. And for others it is a tendency to ignore our physical, emotional and spiritual limits-to not realize that when ’our hair has been shorn’ we cannot go out and beat up on Philistines, even though we want to." [Note: G. Lloyd Rediger, "The Samson Syndrome," Church Management-The Clergy Journal 60:7 (May-June 1984):78.] 