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Judges 14:7
Samson acts on his own account; the parents remain at home, and take no part in the arrangements.
Samson acts on his own account; the parents remain at home, and take no part in the arrangements.
Verse Judges 14:7. _AND TALKED WITH THE WOMAN_] That is, concerning marriage; thus forming the espousals....
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...
_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...
_AND HE WENT DOWN, AND TALKED WITH THE WOMAN; AND SHE PLEASED SAMSON WELL._ Talked with the woman - i:e., espoused her; because the interview between the youth of different sexes is extremely rare an...
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...
TALKED WITH THE WOMAN. — His father and mother seem to have preceded him, and made the betrothal arrangements; otherwise he would not have been allowed by Eastern custom to talk with her. It cannot me...
וַ יֵּ֖רֶד וַ יְדַבֵּ֣ר לָ † אִשָּׁ֑ה...
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...
_Spoke. Septuagint, "they spoke;" both Samson and his parents (Menochius) asked the young woman in marriage, Genesis xxiv. 57., and Canticle of Canticles viii. 8. (Calmet) --- That had. Protestants, ...
There is a beautiful instruction veiled under this. The honey in the carcase of the savage, may not unaptly represent the benefits which result to believers from Adam's fall, and the momentary triumph...
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,...
AND HE WENT DOWN, AND TALKED WITH THE WOMAN,.... Entered into a conversation with her, that he might the better judge of her other qualifications, besides that of outward form and beauty, whether she...
And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. Ver. 7. _And he went down, and talked with the woman._] Treated with her about the marriage, and perhaps was contracted to he...
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...
And he went down and talked with the woman, with the idea of finding out more of her character and suitability by a conversation with her; AND SHE PLEASED SAMSON WELL, the impression which he had firs...
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...
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...
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‘ And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.' Further acquaintance with the Philistine woman confirmed his good first impressions. He was satisfied that she would make h...
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...