{"id":20373,"count":1,"description":"Samson, Shimshon (Hebrew: \u05e9\u05de\u05e9\u05d5\u05df, Modern\u00a0\u0160im\u0161on Tiberian\u00a0\u0160im\u0161\u00f4n, meaning \"man of the sun\"); Shamshoun (Arabic: \u0634\u0645\u0634\u0648\u0646\u200e) or Sampson (Greek: \u03a3\u03b1\u03bc\u03c8\u03ce\u03bd) is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) (Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16).\nSamson was granted supernatural strength by God in order to combat his enemies and perform heroic feats such as wrestling a lion, slaying an entire army with only the jawbone of an ass, and destroying a pagan temple.\nSamson is believed to have been buried in Tel Tzora in Israel overlooking the Sorek valley. There reside two large gravestones of Samson and his father Manoah. Nearby stands Manoah\u2019s altar (Judges 13:19-24). It is located between the cities of Zorah and Eshtaol.\nSamson's activity takes place during a time when God was punishing the Israelites, by giving them \"into the hand of the Philistines\". An angel appears to Manoah, an Israelite from the tribe of Dan, in the city of Zorah, and to his...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/samson\/","name":"Samson","slug":"samson","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/20373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}