Judges 14:6

_AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME MIGHTILY UPON HIM, AND HE RENT HIM AS HE WOULD HAVE RENT A KID, AND HE HAD NOTHING IN HIS HAND: BUT HE TOLD NOT HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER WHAT HE HAD DONE._ The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, х_ WATITSªLACH_ (H6743)] - cleft, broke through; used specially of the Spirit of God proving men: came upon, fell suddenly upon him, communicating those extraordinary coerces by which he was qualified to perform feats of physical strength far beyond the natural capability of man. His rending and killing the shaggy monster, without any weapon in his hand, was accomplished by that superhuman courage and strength which the supernatural influences of the Spirit enabled him to put forth, and by the exertion Of which, in such private incidental circumstances, he was gradually trained to confide in them for the more public work to which he was destined....

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 alone in the vineyards, whither he had rambled. Young people consider not how they exposed themselves to the roaring lion that seeks to devour, when they wander from their prudent, pious parents. Nor do men consider what lions lurk in the vineyards, the vineyards of red wines. Our Lord Jesus having conquered Satan, that roaring lion, believers, like Samson, find honey in the carcass abundant strength and satisfaction, enough for themselves, and for all their friends....

Verse Judges 14:6. _HE RENT HIM AS HE WOULD HAVE RENT A KID_] Now it is not intimated that he did this by his own natural strength, but by the _Spirit of the Lord coming mightily upon him_: so that his strength does not appear to be his own, nor to be at his command; his might was, _by the will of God_, attached to his _hair_ and to his _Nazarate._ __...

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 of Zorah (Judges 13:2, note). It may or may not be identical with Timnath in Genesis 38:12-1, and with _Timnah _in Joshua 15:10. It appears to have been in the possession of the Philistines at this time....

AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD CAME MIGHTILY UPON HIM,.... The Spirit of might from the Lord, as the Targum, inspiring him with courage and intrepidity of mind, and increasing his bodily strength: AND HE RENT HIM AS HE WOULD REND A KID; as he came up to him to seize him, he laid hold on him and strangled him, as Josephus b says, caught him by the throat, and tore it out; for it does not seem that the carcass was torn to pieces, or limb from limb, by what follows; and this he did with as much ease as if he had had only a kid to deal with: AND HE HAD NOTHING IN HIS HAND; not a staff to keep it off, nor a spear, sword, or knife to stab it with: in this Samson was a type of Christ, who has destroyed our adversary the devil, compared to a roaring lion, 1 Peter 5:8 to a lion for his strength, cruelty, and voraciousness; to a roaring lion, making a hideous noise and

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 (Judges 14:10) 4. The riddle answered (Judges 14:15) 5. Thirty Philistines slain by Samson (Judges 14:19) Samson was called of God to be a true Nazarite, but in his life which was to manifest the Nazarite character he failed. “He went down to Timnath” is a foreboding beginning. It was a step in the wrong direction. He st

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 14:5 conveys the idea that his parents after all gave their consent, and even went down with him to the wedding. This in itself is improbable, and there is no indication of their presence at Timnath or of their returning home. Moore plausibly suggests that a later writer, taking offence at the story of an improper marriage, inserted and his father and his mother in order to regularise it. The same applies to Judges 14:10. Judges 14:6. _Cf._ D

THE SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9....

_came mightily upon him_ Cf. Judges 14:19, Jdg 15:14, 1 Samuel 10:6; 1 Samuel 10:10; 1 Samuel 11:6; the expression denotes a sudden rush of superhuman power. _and he rent him … a kid rent him as_ A MAN RENDS _a kid_; the verb only here and in Leviticus 1:17, where it is used of the ritual _learing asunder_of a fowl in burnt offering. The comparison _as one rends a kid_may refer to some ceremonial act, as Moore suggests, but we have no evidence of such a practice. Milton's version, -Who tore the lion, as the lion tears t

_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, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife. 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well. 4 But his father and mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young