Samson carries city gates from Gaza to Hebron

In Samson's forays into Philistine territory, he twice went to Gaza. On his last trip, he fell in death. Not long before that, he spent the night with a prostitute. Plans were made to kill Samson, but he got up in the middle of the night, tore down the city gates, and carried the extremely heavy load to a hill facing Hebron. If this was only a hill near Gaza, it would have been an impressive feat. But if he took the gates all the way to Hebron, it would have meant carrying hundreds of pounds on an uphill hike of some 55 miles (88 km). Either way, the fact that Samson placed the gates in a way that they faced Hebron was deeply symbolic. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the patriarchs of Judaism, were all buried there. The inclusion of Hebron in this story has to be important. Samson had been meant to be a great leader of God's people, too. This video includes footage of the building in Hebron that is the traditional burial location of the patriarchs. It is called the "Cave of the Patriarchs."