In Judges, chapter thirteen, verse five, the birth of Samson is introduced in this chapter where God intended him to be a Nazarite and live according to God’s highest standards for His people. During this period, the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the arrival of Samson came at a crucial time. However, the weaknesses of Samson’s character prohibit him from bringing complete deliverance that was In the cases of Jephthah and Samson, the Israelites learned the power which rests in individual vows to display the occult and mysterious heroism of the human spirit: and to save people from sinking into the lowest depths. The vow became a new force of the age. In Jephthah’s case, it had been an isolated vow, but in Samson’s, it was the devotion to life and developed an indomitable energy and power.
The promised son was to be a Nazarite all his life, because he was to begin to deliver Israel out of the power of his foes. And that he might be so, his mother was to share in the renunciations of the Nazarite vow during the time of her pregnancy. While the appearance of the angel of the Lord contained the practical pledge that the Lord still acknowledged His people, though He had given them into the hands of their enemies; the message of the angel contained this lesson and warning for Israel, that it could only obtain deliverance from its foes by seeking after a life of consecration to the Lord, such as the Nazarites pursued, so as to realize the idea of the priestly character to which Israel had been called as the people of Jehovah, and everything that was unclean, as being emanations of sin, and also by a complete self-surrender to the Lord.