| It is the story of Samson, the mighty warrior who was betrayed by his lover, and then blinded and imprisoned by his enemies, the Philistines. |
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| When the Israelites asked for a king to lead them against the Philistines, Samuel warned them that he would become a tyrant. |
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| The prophet Amos reminds us that, like us, the Ethiopians, Philistines, and Arameans have roles in God's plan. |
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| So both of them discovered themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. |
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| Still, he's a flawed guy, and the Philistines capitalize on this by sending in top-secret operative Delilah, the seductive hottie charged with sapping Samson of his strength. |
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| The difficulty is to be settled not by trying to write poetry that the Philistines can understand but by outdistancing them in the very race they have set. |
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| The end came when the Israelites were battling the Philistines at Aphek. |
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| As time went on, the spiritual level of the nation declined to the point that God allowed the Philistines to capture the tabernacle. |
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| He also collaborated and continues to work with many artists including Ragtop from the Philistines as well as Iraqi hip hop artist the Narcicyst. |
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| The secret of extracting and working iron was a key factor in the success of the Philistines. |
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| They can be seen as potential development land by philistines who only see land as money waiting to happen. |
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| Utilitarianism in Victorian England was often misconstructed as essentially anti-art, indeed as the doctrine of cultural philistines. |
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| The philistines may have triumphed on the streets of the 2008 Capital of Culture, but surely the galleries were unconquered? |
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| To put this bluntly, art and its processes have always been incomprehensible to philistines and ideologues on the right and left. |
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| There are some philistines out there who claim that all of Jack and Meg's records sound the same. |
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| Let us hope when it is illuminated that at least some of the philistines might see what the fuss is about. |
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| Some of these arguments are important and valid for protecting ambitious contemporary art as a whole from philistines and iconophobes. |
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| Oh yes, they were hopeless philistines, little better than savages actually. |
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| He has always compared the job of gallery boss to that of an evangelist, and viewed philistines as candidates for conversion rather than a mob to cower from. |
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| Of course none of this will convince the philistines who believe that making music this good involves nothing more complex than a good mains supply. |
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