Samson in rabbinic literature x. 13), was a member of that clan (comp. I Chronicles iv. 3). The name "Samson" is derived from "shemesh" ("sun"), so that Samson bore the name of God, who is also "a sun and shield" (Psalm lxxxiv. 12 [A. V. 11]); and as God protected Israel, so did Samson watch over it in his generation, judging the people even as did God. Samson's strength was divinely derived (Sotah 10a); and he further resembled God in requiring neither aid nor help (Genesis Rabba xcviii. 18). In the blessings which Jacob pronounced on the tribe of Dan (Genesis xlix. 16-17) he
Cultural references to Samson "Hallelujah" which makes references to Samson and Delilah. A later album, Popular Problems contains the song 'Samson in New Orleans', which contains the lines "Stand me by those pillars/Let me take this temple down". The Cranberries have a song called "Delilah" written from the perspective of a woman fighting off a conniving temptress. Mandy Moore and Jonathon Foreman (from Switchfoot) have a song called "Someday We'll Know" for the movie "A Walk To Remember" with references to Samson and Delilah in the chorus. Bishop Allen released a song called "Empire City" that references Samson with the lines: "Samson suffered the