Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 14:5
Father and mother — Who accompanied him, either because they were now acquainted with his design; or, to order the circumstances of that action which they saw he was set upon.
Father and mother — Who accompanied him, either because they were now acquainted with his design; or, to order the circumstances of that action which they saw he was set upon.
Verse Judges 14:5. _A YOUNG LION ROARED AGAINST HIM._] Came fiercely out upon him, ready to tear him to pieces....
CHAPTER 14 THE FIRST DEEDS OF SAMSON _ 1. The woman in Timnath (Judges 14:1)_ 2. The killing of the young lion and the honey in the carcass (Judges 14:5) 3. The marriage feast and the riddle (Judge...
SAMSON'S MARRIAGE. As he could not take an unwelcomed bride to his father's house, Samson resolved to contract a marriage in which his wife would remain at her father's house (Judges 9:2 *). Judges 14...
A YOUNG LION. Lions once abounded in Palestine. Hence names _Lebaoth_ (Joshua 15:32; Joshua 19:6). _Arieh_ (2 Kings 15:25). _Laish_ (Judges 18
_and his father and his mother_ A later addition made for the purpose of conforming Samson's marriage to the ordinary type, in which the preliminaries were arranged by the parents. The encounter with...
BEHOLD, A YOUNG LION ROARED AGAINST HIM— It appears from this and many other passages, that there were lions in Judaea; whence several places had their names. See Joshua 15:32; Joshua 19:6. Every one...
_Samson and the Woman of Timnath Judges 14:1-7_ And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, a...
_THEN WENT SAMSON DOWN, AND HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER, TO TIMNATH, AND CAME TO THE VINEYARDS OF TIMNATH: AND, BEHOLD, A YOUNG LION ROARED AGAINST HIM._ A young lion - Hebrew, a lion in the pride of h...
THE MARRIAGE OF SAMSON 1-5. Samson chooses a wife among the Philistines. He and his parents go down to Timnath....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 14 V1 Samson went to Timnah. There he saw a young woman, who was a *Philistine. V2 When he returned, he spoke to his father and mother. ‘I have seen...
(5) THE VINEYARDS OF TIMNATH. — All this part of Palestine, and especially the neighbouring valley of Sorek (Judges 16:4), was famous for its vines (Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21). The hills of Judah, whi...
וַ יֵּ֧רֶד שִׁמְשֹׁ֛ון וְ אָבִ֥יו וְ אִמֹּ֖ו
SAMSON PLUNGING INTO LIFE Judges 13:24; Judges 14:1 Or all who move before us in the Book of Judges Samson is preeminently the popular hero. In rude giant strength and wild daring he stands alone aga...
A SELF-WILLED YOUTH Judges 14:1 Timnath lay just across the frontier, in the Philistine country. It was a bad match and the beginning of life-trouble. Young people cannot be too careful as to their f...
This is the record of tragic things. The boy Samson had grown to manhood's estate full of strength and passion. Going to Timnah, he saw a woman of the Philistines and desired to take her to wife. His...
While going to Timnath, Samson was attacked by a young lion which he killed with his bare hands, because of the strength he received from God. Later, when he returned to take her home to marry her, Sa...
_Young lion, not quite so strong as an old one, but in its vigour. (Rabbins) (Calmet) --- Met him. Hebrew, "roared against him." (Haydock) --- His parents were at some distance. (Menochius) --- St. Au...
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. The young lion, roaring against Samson, is a figur...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 14 AND 15. God makes use of Samson's marriage with a Philistine woman to punish that people. Still, in the freshness of his strength, his heart with Jehovah,...
THEN WENT SAMSON DOWN, AND HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER, TO TIMNATH,.... They were prevailed upon to go with him, either because they perceived his affections were so strongly set upon a wife, that they...
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. Ver. 5. _Then went Samson down, and his father an...
_And his father and mother_ Who accompanied him, either because they were now acquainted with his design, or to order the circumstances of that action which they saw he was set upon. _The Spirit of th...
1 Samson desireth a wife of the Philistines. 2 In his iourney hee killeth a Lion. 8 In a second iourney hee findeth hony in the carkeis. 10 Samsons marriage feast. 12 His riddle by his wife is mad...
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, the young man evidently preceding his parents in his eagerness to press his suit with the woman of his choice, AND CAME TO THE VINEYAR...
THE PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS...
Samson was not a leader, but a rugged individualist.He knew the Philistines were oppressors of Israel, yet he consorted with the Philistines when it pleased him, and he attacked them when he pleased.T...
AGAINST HIM: _ Heb._ in meeting him...
5-9 By enabling him to kill a lion, God let Samson know what he could do in the strength of the Spirit of the Lord, that he might never be afraid to look the greatest difficulties in the face. He was...
HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER accompanied him, either because they were now acquainted with his design, or to order the circumstances of that action which they saw he was set upon, or to watch if they cou...
Judges 14:5 Samson H8123 down H3381 (H8799) Timnah H8553 father H1 mother H517 came H935 (H8799) vineyards...
‘ Then Samson went down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah, and, behold, a young lion roared against him.' It is clear that they made their separate ways to...
CONTENTS: Samson as Judge. His victory over a lion; his riddles; his wife. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Samson, parents, woman of Timnah. CONCLUSION: He that in the choice of a wife is guided only...
Judges 14:1. _Timnath,_ situate in mount Ephraim, often taken and retaken in successive wars. To form a matrimonial connection with the Philistines, or with any of the idolatrous nations, was a violat...
_Samson went down to Timnath._ SAMSON’S FIRST LOVE In considering Samson’s choice of a wife, we are conscious of a feeling of painful disappointment. In choosing a Philistine, we begin to see his low...
SAMSON’S FIRST DEALINGS WITH THE PHILISTINES (Judges 14:1.) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 14:1. TIMNATH.] This was a town on the frontier which, like many other towns had been at first assigned to Judah to...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 14:1 TIMNATH, or, more correctly, _Thimnathah_,_ _as in Joshua 19:43, a town in the tribe of Dan, the name of which survives in the modern _Tibneh_,_ _about three miles south-west o...
NOW Samson went down to Timnath (Judges 14:1), Which was a Philistine city and there he fell in love with one of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came home and he said to his parents, "I want...
Judges 14:5...