Judges 14:1

Samson went downe to Thamnath, and sawe a woma in Thamnath of the daughters of the Philistines:

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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

2And he came vp, and told his father and his mother, & said: I haue sene a woman in Thamnath of the daughters of the Philistines: & nowe geue me her to wyfe.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:1Dina the daughter of Lea, whiche she bare vnto Iacob, went out to see the daughters of the lande.

Judges 16:1Then went Samson to Azzah, and sawe there an harlot, and went in vnto her.

1 John 2:16For all that is in the worlde, as the lust of the fleshe, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the father, but of the worlde.

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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