Judges 14:1
Nowe Samson went downe to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 34:1Then Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare vnto Iaakob, went out to see the daughters of that countrey.
Joshua 15:10Then this border compasseth from Baalah Westward vnto mount Seir, and goeth along vnto the side of mount Iearim, which is Chesalon on the Northside: so it commeth downe to Bethshemesh, and goeth to Timnah.
Judges 16:1Then went Samson to Azzah, and sawe there an harlot, and went in vnto her.
Job 31:1I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde?
1 John 2:16For all that is in this world (as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) is not of the Father, but is of this 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 →