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.
"As long as Samson remained a Nazarite he was unconquerable.  Of all the judges, he only did everything singlehandedly and alone."[19]  He never recruited an army from the Israelites.  We are not told how he managed his judgeship, where, or at what intervals he conducted his court, nor of any of his judgments.  We are not even told what the manner of Israel's life might have been during that twenty years.  The tragic end came as recorded in the following chapter.