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Selected Verse: Judges 14:1 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jud 14:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And Samson [08123] went down [03381] to Timnath [08553], and saw [07200] a woman [0802] in Timnath [08553] of the daughters [01323] of the Philistines [06430]. |
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King James |
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
SAMSON DESIRES A WIFE OF THE PHILISTINES. (Jdg 14:1-5)
Timnath--now Tibna, about three miles from Zorah, his birthplace.
saw a woman . . . of the Philistines; and told his father and his mother, and said, . . . get her for me to wife--In the East parents did, and do in many cases still, negotiate the marriage alliances for their sons. During their period of ascendency, the Philistine invaders had settled in the towns; and the intercourse between them and the Israelites was often of such a friendly and familiar character as to issue in matrimonial relations. Moreover, the Philistines were not in the number of the seven devoted nations of Canaan [Deu 7:1-3] --with whom the law forbade them to marry. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Timnath - See Jos 15:10 and note. It was below Zorah Jdg 13:2, about three miles S. W. of it. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Samson's First Transactions with the Philistines. - Jdg 14:1-9. At Tibnath, the present Tibne, an hour's journey to the south-west of Sur'a (see at Jos 15:10), to which Samson had gone down from Zorea or Mahaneh-dan, he saw a daughter of the Philistines who pleased him; and on his return he asked his parents to take her for him as a wife (לקח, to take, as in Exo 21:9). |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Went - After he was come to mature age. Timnath - A place not far from the sea. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Went down to Timnath - A frontier town of the Philistines, at the beginning of the lands belonging to the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:57; but afterwards given up to Dan, Jos 19:43. David took this place from the Philistines, but they again got possession of it in the reign of Ahaz, Ch2 28:18. |
1 When the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall bring [0935] thee into the land [0776] whither thou goest [0935] to possess [03423] it, and hath cast out [05394] many [07227] nations [01471] before [06440] thee, the Hittites [02850], and the Girgashites [01622], and the Amorites [0567], and the Canaanites [03669], and the Perizzites [06522], and the Hivites [02340], and the Jebusites [02983], seven [07651] nations [01471] greater [07227] and mightier [06099] than thou;
2 And when the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] shall deliver [05414] them before [06440] thee; thou shalt smite [05221] them, and utterly [02763] destroy [02763] them; thou shalt make [03772] no covenant [01285] with them, nor shew mercy [02603] unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages [02859] with them; thy daughter [01323] thou shalt not give [05414] unto his son [01121], nor his daughter [01323] shalt thou take [03947] unto thy son [01121].
1 And Samson [08123] went down [03381] to Timnath [08553], and saw [07200] a woman [0802] in Timnath [08553] of the daughters [01323] of the Philistines [06430].
2 And he came up [05927], and told [05046] his father [01] and his mother [0517], and said [0559], I have seen [07200] a woman [0802] in Timnath [08553] of the daughters [01323] of the Philistines [06430]: now therefore get [03947] her for me to wife [0802].
3 Then his father [01] and his mother [0517] said [0559] unto him, Is there never [0369] a woman [0802] among the daughters [01323] of thy brethren [0251], or among all my people [05971], that thou goest [01980] to take [03947] a wife [0802] of the uncircumcised [06189] Philistines [06430]? And Samson [08123] said [0559] unto his father [01], Get [03947] her for me; for she pleaseth me well [03474] [05869].
4 But his father [01] and his mother [0517] knew [03045] not that it was of the LORD [03068], that he sought [01245] an occasion [08385] against the Philistines [06430]: for at that time [06256] the Philistines [06430] had dominion [04910] over Israel [03478].
5 Then went [03381] Samson [08123] down [03381], and his father [01] and his mother [0517], to Timnath [08553], and came [0935] to the vineyards [03754] of Timnath [08553]: and, behold, a young [03715] lion [0738] roared [07580] against [07125] him.
2 And there was a certain [0259] man [0376] of Zorah [06881], of the family [04940] of the Danites [01839], whose name [08034] was Manoah [04495]; and his wife [0802] was barren [06135], and bare [03205] not.
10 And the border [01366] compassed [05437] from Baalah [01173] westward [03220] unto mount [02022] Seir [08165], and passed [05674] along unto the side [03802] of mount [02022] Jearim [03297], which is Chesalon [03693], on the north side [06828], and went down [03381] to Bethshemesh [01053], and passed on [05674] to Timnah [08553]:
9 And if he have betrothed [03259] her unto his son [01121], he shall deal [06213] with her after the manner [04941] of daughters [01323].
10 And the border [01366] compassed [05437] from Baalah [01173] westward [03220] unto mount [02022] Seir [08165], and passed [05674] along unto the side [03802] of mount [02022] Jearim [03297], which is Chesalon [03693], on the north side [06828], and went down [03381] to Bethshemesh [01053], and passed on [05674] to Timnah [08553]:
1 And Samson [08123] went down [03381] to Timnath [08553], and saw [07200] a woman [0802] in Timnath [08553] of the daughters [01323] of the Philistines [06430].
2 And he came up [05927], and told [05046] his father [01] and his mother [0517], and said [0559], I have seen [07200] a woman [0802] in Timnath [08553] of the daughters [01323] of the Philistines [06430]: now therefore get [03947] her for me to wife [0802].
3 Then his father [01] and his mother [0517] said [0559] unto him, Is there never [0369] a woman [0802] among the daughters [01323] of thy brethren [0251], or among all my people [05971], that thou goest [01980] to take [03947] a wife [0802] of the uncircumcised [06189] Philistines [06430]? And Samson [08123] said [0559] unto his father [01], Get [03947] her for me; for she pleaseth me well [03474] [05869].
4 But his father [01] and his mother [0517] knew [03045] not that it was of the LORD [03068], that he sought [01245] an occasion [08385] against the Philistines [06430]: for at that time [06256] the Philistines [06430] had dominion [04910] over Israel [03478].
5 Then went [03381] Samson [08123] down [03381], and his father [01] and his mother [0517], to Timnath [08553], and came [0935] to the vineyards [03754] of Timnath [08553]: and, behold, a young [03715] lion [0738] roared [07580] against [07125] him.
6 And the Spirit [07307] of the LORD [03068] came mightily [06743] upon him, and he rent [08156] him as he would have rent [08156] a kid [01423], and he had nothing [03972] in his hand [03027]: but he told [05046] not his father [01] or his mother [0517] what he had done [06213].
7 And he went down [03381], and talked [01696] with the woman [0802]; and she pleased [03474] Samson [08123] well [03474] [05869].
8 And after a time [03117] he returned [07725] to take [03947] her, and he turned aside [05493] to see [07200] the carcase [04658] of the lion [0738]: and, behold, there was a swarm [05712] of bees [01682] and honey [01706] in the carcase [01472] of the lion [0738].
9 And he took [07287] thereof in his hands [03709], and went on [03212] eating [0398], and came [01980] to his father [01] and mother [0517], and he gave [05414] them, and they did eat [0398]: but he told [05046] not them that he had taken [07287] the honey [01706] out of the carcase [01472] of the lion [0738].
18 The Philistines [06430] also had invaded [06584] the cities [05892] of the low country [08219], and of the south [05045] of Judah [03063], and had taken [03920] Bethshemesh [01053], and Ajalon [0357], and Gederoth [01450], and Shocho [07755] with the villages [01323] thereof, and Timnah [08553] with the villages [01323] thereof, Gimzo [01579] also and the villages [01323] thereof: and they dwelt [03427] there.
43 And Elon [0356], and Thimnathah [08553], and Ekron [06138],
57 Cain [07014], Gibeah [01390], and Timnah [08553]; ten [06235] cities [05892] with their villages [02691]: