When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
Samson's prayer for relief from his thirst, "Is the only prayer of Samson recorded, except the one on the occasion of his death."[17] Therefore, this seems to have been some kind of a high point in Samson's life.  Dalglish pointed out that all of the bizarre events mentioned in Judges regarding Samson probably required very little time in the aggregate, and that, in spite of his sins and mistakes, "Samson nevertheless judged Israel for a period of twenty years  (Judges 15:20); and his exploits kept alive the flame of patriotism during the long Philistine oppression."[18]