士師記 14:14-15 JC

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 14:1-14

a Self-willed Youth Judges 14:1-14 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 first love-match. Pray over it before you let your heart go. Take the advice of parents and friends. Whatever you do, marry only “in the Lord.” For a Christian to marry one who is destitute of the divine life, is not only to set Christ’s law at defiance, but to incur the misery of perpetual... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Judges 14:15-20

in Bad Company Judges 14:15-20 ; Judges 15:1-8 What strong confirmation is afforded, by Samson’s experience, of the misery of a mixed marriage! This Philistine wife had no real love for him, and was more readily influenced by her own people than by her husband. How could she enter into his desire to emancipate Israel? To carry out his life-purpose of freeing Israel, He must break with her. Notice how this poor wife was visited with the very chastisement from which she hoped, by treachery,... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Judges 14:1-20

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 parents attempted to dissuade him, but he allowed himself to be swept by his passion and determined to realize his own desires. All through the transactions connected with this woman, he is seen as a man of animal strength, bold, adventurous, determined, and of sporting propensities. There is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 14:14

‘ And he said to them, “From the eater came food, from the strong came sweet.” And they could not propound the riddle in three days.’ They at first, in their merry state, probably thought that it would soon be solved, but after a few days they became alarmed. No solution that they propounded was correct. ‘In three days’ signifies a standard short period of time, ‘in a few days’. The riddle was not only a riddle. Samson probably intended by it amusing mockery. He was thinking that from the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 14:15

‘ And so it was that on the seventh day they said to Samson's wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the solution to the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us so as to take what we have? Is that not so?”’ Time passed by. It passed not only a ‘three day’ period but a ‘seven day’ period, a longer standard period of time (compare the ‘three days’ journey and the ‘seven days’ journey so often found in Genesis). We must remember that the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 14:5-20

Judges 14:5-Proverbs : . 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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 14:14

i.e. Out of that strong and devouring creature, the lion, came forth sweet meat, to wit, honey; withal it is covertly implied, that the Philistines, though now they had strength on their side, and dominion over Israel, whom they did devour upon all occasions, yet at last they should become meat to the Israelites. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Judges 14:15

On the seventh day; they had doubtless spoken to her before this time, but with some remissness, supposing that they should find it out; but now their time being nigh slipped, they press her with more vehemency, and put her under a necessity of searching it out. To take that we have, i.e. to strip us of our garments; and so your civility will end in gross unkindness and injustice. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 14:1-20

SAMSON’S FIRST DEALINGS WITH THE PHILISTINES(Judges 14:1-20.)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 subdue and occupy (Joshua 15:57), but as Dan had too small a territory for its people, it and other towns were transferred to Dan. It is referred to in Joshua 15:43, also in ch. Judges 15:10. It was only a few miles from Samson’s mountain home, and though it should have all along belonged to the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Judges 14:12-14

DISCOURSE: 274SAMSON’S RIDDLEJudges 14:12-14. And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments: but if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets, and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out... read more