Get her for me - namely, by Paying the requisite dowry (see marginal references) and gifts to relations. Hence, the frequent mention of parents taking wives for their sons Exodus 34:16; Nehemiah 10:30, because the parents of the bridegroom conducted the negotiation, and paid the dower to the parents of the bride.
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 AT TIMNATH. Samson's adventures are all bound up with his relations to Philistine women one in Timnath, a second in Gaza, and a third in the valley of Sorek. The name of only one of them is giv...
Samson at first behaves as a dutiful son, and consults both parents about his marriage. It is hardly necessary to strike out the reference to his mother....
_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 CAME UP, AND TOLD HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER, AND SAID, I HAVE SEEN A WOMAN IN TIMNATH OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES: NOW THEREFORE GET HER FOR ME TO WIFE._ Get her for me to wife. In th...
THE MARRIAGE OF SAMSON 1-5. Samson chooses a wife among the Philistines. He and his parents go down to Timnath....
TIMNATH] some 4 m. SW. of Zorah, allotted to Dan (Joshua 19:43); it was retaken by the Philistines in the reign of Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:18). GET HER FOR ME TO WIFE] It was customary for parents to co...
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...
GET HER FOR ME TO WIFE. — These arrangements were always left to parents, who paid the marriage dower (Genesis 34:4). (Comp. Judges 12:9; Nehemiah 10:30, &c.)...
וַ יַּ֗עַל וַ יַּגֵּד֙ לְ אָבִ֣יו וּ
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...
Samson found a daughter of the Philistines in Timnath that he wanted to marry and asked his parents to make the proper arrangements. They did not approve of marriage to one not of God's people and ask...
Certainly it is an unnatural alliance when grace and corruption join. For what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? And though it is an express command of our God to come out from among them,...
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 CAME UP, AND TOLD HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER,.... Of his passion of love, being desirous of having their approbation and consent, in which he acted a dutiful part, and what became him; and may b...
_And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife._ Ver. 2. _Now therefore get he...
_Samson went_ After he was come to mature age; _to Timnath _ A place not far from the sea. _Get her for me to wife_ Herein he is an example to all children, conformable to the fifth commandment. Child...
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 came up, to the hilly country where the home of his parents was, AND TOLD HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER, AND SAID, I HAVE SEEN A WOMAN IN TIMNATH OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PHILISTINES; NOW, THEREFORE...
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...
1-4 As far as Samson's marriage was a common case, it was weak and foolish of him to set his affections upon a daughter of the Philistines. Shall one, not only an Israelite, but a Nazarite, devoted t...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Judges 14:2 up H5927 (H8799) told H5046 (H8686) father H1 mother H517 saying H559 (H8799) seen...
‘ And he came up, and told his father and his mother, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines, now therefore get her for me to be my wife.” ' Samson was quite open about his...
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...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 14:2 UNCIRCUMCISED PHILISTINES. Israelites were forbidden to marry unbelieving foreigners (Exodus 34:16;...
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...
2 Kings 14:9; Genesis 21:21; Genesis 24:2; Genesis 24:3; Genesis 34:4;...
To wife — Herein he is an example to all children, conformable to the fifth commandment. Children ought not to marry, nor to move toward it without the advice and consent of their parents. They that d...