Judges 14:1
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
Majority Standard Bible
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
Cross References
Genesis 34:1Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
Joshua 15:10The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.
Judges 16:1One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not 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 →