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Verse Judges 14:5. _A YOUNG LION ROARED AGAINST HIM._] Came fiercely
out upon him, ready to tear him to pieces....
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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...
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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...
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A YOUNG LION. Lions once abounded in Palestine. Hence names _Lebaoth_
(Joshua 15:32; Joshua 19:6). _Arieh_ (2 Kings 15:25). _Laish_ (Judges
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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THE MARRIAGE OF SAMSON
1-5. Samson chooses a wife among the Philistines. He and his parents
go down to Timnath....
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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...
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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...
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וַ יֵּ֧רֶד שִׁמְשֹׁ֛ון וְ אָבִ֥יו וְ
אִמֹּ֖ו
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS...
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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...
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AGAINST HIM:
_ Heb._ in meeting him...
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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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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...
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Judges 14:5 Samson H8123 down H3381 (H8799) Timnah H8553 father H1
mother H517 came H935 (H8799) vineyards...
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‘ 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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Judges 14:5...
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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....