# Is Samson the father of Goliath?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 27, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samson-the-father-of-goliath/773128 "2016-11-27T04:12:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samson-the-father-of-goliath/773128/41 "2016-12-01T04:13:38Z")

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If someone isn’t familiar with the whole Samson story and just knows the Cecil B. DeMille version, here’s the whole thing in its ghastly glory, straight out of the Bible, beautifully crated with Lego blocks:

[Samson Commits Mass Murder](http://thebricktestament.com/judges/samson_commits_mass_murder/jg14_01.html)

[Samson Commits Arson](http://thebricktestament.com/judges/samson_commits_arson/jg15_01.html)

[Samson Slaughters 1,000](http://thebricktestament.com/judges/samson_slaughters_1000/jg15_09.html)

[Samson and the Prostitute](http://thebricktestament.com/judges/samson_and_the_prostitute/jg16_01a.html)

[Samson and Delilah](http://thebricktestament.com/judges/samson_and_delilah/jg16_04.html)

[Samson’s Final Mass Murder](http://thebricktestament.com/judges/samsons_final_mass_murder/jg16_22.html)

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samson-the-father-of-goliath/773128/42 "2016-12-01T12:33:18Z")

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“Murder” probably isn’t the right label. Remember, this was war.

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**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-samson-the-father-of-goliath/773128/43 "2016-12-01T21:14:56Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> “Murder” probably isn’t the right label. Remember, this was war.

Murder is exactly what it was. They were not at war, and he didn’t kill them as a part of an insurrection; he killed them just to get their robes so he could pay off a bet he lost to his Philistine wedding guests. Nothing military about it.

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