Judges 14:1
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.
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Genesis 34:1And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
Joshua 15:10And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Judges 16:1Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.
Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of 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 →