Judges 14:1

Then Samson went down to Thamnatlia, and seeing there a woman of the daughters of the Philistines,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

In Context

2He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying: I saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines: I beseech you, take her for me to wife.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:1And Dina the daughter of Lia went out to see the women of that country.

Joshua 15:10And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.

Judges 16:1He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.

Job 31:1I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of 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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