Judges 14:1
One day Samson went to Timnah, where a young Philistine woman attracted his attention.
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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.
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Cross References
Genesis 34:1Dinah, Jacob and Leah's daughter, went to visit some of the local women.
Joshua 15:10Then the boundary moved around to the west of Baalah to Mount Seir and passed along the northern slope of Mount Jearim to the town of Kesalon, down to Beth Shemesh and on to Timnah.
Judges 16:1Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and he went to have sex with her that night.
Job 31:1“I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.
1 John 2:16For all the things of this world—our sinful desires, wanting everything we see, boasting about what we've accomplished in life— these things don't come from the Father but from 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 →