Dear reader, never before have so many Palestinians died in a single day. In this article, learn about the day 33,000 Palestinians died because of a single Jew.
How the Jewish Man Was Kidnapped.
Around 1000 BCE, an Israeli warrior named Samson fell in love with a beautiful Palestinian woman. Palestinian militants used this woman as a trap for this powerful Jewish fighter.
The militants entered Israel, kidnapped Samson, tortured him and immediately took him to Gaza.
Listen to what God’s written word says in the Bible:
21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
Judges 16:21
Thousands of Palestinians gathered at a large temple in Gaza.
On that fateful day, Palestinian leaders, thousands of armed militiamen and multitudes of local Gaza residents filled the great temple in Gaza. The giant building was so full that, on the roof alone, 3,000 men and women watched the captured Israeli warrior (see Judges 16:27).
If the roof of this giant temple housed 3,000 people, know that there were ten times as many inside the building, for a total of around 30,000 people.
According to the written word of God, they celebrated, saying:
Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands!
Judges 16:23
How the Palestinians died.
As the sadistic fun continued, the Jewish warrior asked God for supernatural strength. He wanted God to use him to do something extraordinary that day.
He prayed thus:
Sovereign Lord, remember me. Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes.
Judges 16:28
God answered the prayer of this corageous Israeli warrior. Soon he reached toward the two central pillars on which the great temple stood. Then God gave this man supernatural strength equivalent to the most powerful bulldozer on earth.
Bracing himself against the two pillars, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other, he said, “Let me die with the Philistines!”
Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers, militiamen, and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.
