JUDGES CHAPTER 14 Samson desires to wife a daughter of the Philistines of Timnath; and this of the Lord, for an occasion against them, Judges 14:1. His parents go down with him to Timnath: a young lion meets him; he kills it, Judges 14:5; in his return he findeth honey in the carcass, Judges 14:8,9. Keepeth a marriage feast: hath thirty companions adjoined to him; to whom he propoundeth a riddle; with promise of a present, Judges 14:10. His wife extorts from him the explication, and discovereth it, Judges 14:16. He slayeth thirty Philistines of Ashkelon, and therewith payeth his present, Judges 14:19. His wife is given to another, Judges 14:20. After he was come to mature age. Timnath; a place not far from the sea; of which see Genesis 38:12 Joshua 15:57, Joshua 19:43.

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