Judges 14:19

The sudden access of superhuman power seems to coincide with the outburst of natural passion, as in Judges 14:6; Judges 15:14.

Ashkelon Perhaps Khirbet -Asḳalûn, about 4 m. S. of Tibneh (Timnah), rather than the well-known Ashkelon on the sea-coast, 24 m. or 8 hours distant. The anger ought to precede rather than follow the exploit; but the writer probably did not trouble about logical sequence in his narrative of marvels. There is no need to regard the feat at Ashkelon as a later addition (Moore, Budde, Nowack) because it leads to nothing in the sequel.

their spoil lit. things stripped offa dead enemy, exuviae; only again 2 Samuel 2:21.

he went up without consummating the marriage, as the previous verses seem to imply (esp. Judges 14:18); although it is true that sometimes the consummation took place on the first and not on the last day of the feast, Genesis 29:23.