Judges 14:1
Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;
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And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
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Genesis 34:1Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.
Joshua 15:10Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:
Judges 16:1Now Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a loose woman and went in to her.
Job 31:1I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
1 John 2:16Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
Matthew Henry on Judges 14:1
The idea which this chapter gives us of Samson is not what one might have expected concerning one who, by the special designation of heaven, was a Nazarite to God and a deliverer of Israel; and yet really he was both. Here is, I. Samson's courtship of a daughter of the Philistines, and his marriage to her, ver. 1-5 , 7 , 8 . II. His conquest of a lion, and the prize he found in the carcase of it, ver. 5, 6 , 8 , 9 . III. Samson's riddle proposed to his companions ( ver. 10-14 ) and unriddled by the treachery of… Read the whole commentary →