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Judges 14:1

And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,

Young's Literal Translation

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 cometh up and declareth to his father, and to his mother, and saith, 'A woman I have seen in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife.'

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Cross References

Genesis 34:1And Dinah, daughter of Leah, whom she hath borne to Jacob, goeth out to look on the daughters of the land,

Joshua 15:10and the border hath gone round from Baalah westward, unto mount Seir, and passed over unto the side of mount Jearim (it [is] Chesalon), on the north, and gone down [to] Beth-Shemesh, and passed over to Timnah;

Judges 16:1And Samson goeth to Gaza, and seeth there a woman, a harlot, and goeth in unto her;

Job 31:1A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what — do I attend to a virgin?

1 John 2:16because all that [is] in the world — the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life — is not of the Father, but 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 →

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