Judges 14:1

Then Samson descended to Timnah. And seeing there a woman from 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.

In Context

2he went up, and he told his father and his mother, saying: “I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. I ask that you take her to me as wife.”

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Cross References

Genesis 34:1Then Dinah, the daughter of Leah, went out to see the women of that region.

Joshua 15:10And it circles from Baalah, to the west, as far as mount Seir. And it passes by the side of mount Jearim, to the north, into Chesalon. And it descends into Beth-shemesh, and it passes through to Timnah.

Judges 16:1He also went into Gaza. And there he saw a harlot woman, and he entered to her.

Job 31:1I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin.

1 John 2:16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is 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 →

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