Judges 14:10

While his father went to visit the woman, Samson held a drinking party there, because this was the custom among high-class young men.

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In The King James Version

So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

In Context

9He scraped out some of the honey into his hands and ate it as he walked. When he got back to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he didn't tell them he'd taken the honey from a lion's carcass.

11When the Philistine people saw him, they arranged for thirty men to accompany him.

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Cross References

Esther 1:7Drinks were served in golden goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine flowed freely because of the king's generosity.

Matthew 22:2“The kingdom of heaven is like a king who organized a wedding celebration for his son,” Jesus explained.

Revelation 19:9The angel told me, “Write this down: How happy are those who are invited to the Lamb's wedding feast.” Then he said to me, “These are God's true words.”

Matthew Henry on Judges 14:2-10

Samson Chooses a Philistine Wife; A Lion Slain by Samson. ( b. c. 1141.) 1 And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the… Read the whole commentary →

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