Judges 14:1

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 up, and told his father and his mother, and said: 'I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore get her for me to wife.'

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Cross References

Genesis 34:1And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Joshua 15:10And the border turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim on the north — the same is Chesalon — and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah.

Judges 16:1And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in unto her.

Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

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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