Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 14:1-9
Here, I. Samson, under the extraordinary guidance of Providence, seeks an occasion of quarrelling with the Philistines, by joining in affinity with them?a strange method, but the truth is Samson was himself a riddle, a paradox of a man, did that which was really great and good, by that which was seemingly weak and evil, because he was designed not to be a pattern to us (who must walk by rule, not by example), but a type of him who, though he knew no sin, was made sin for us, and appeared in... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 14
The idea which this chapter gives us of Samson is not what one might have expected concerning one who, by the special designation of heaven, was a Nazarite to God and a deliverer of Israel; and yet really he was both. Here is, I. Samson's courtship of a daughter of the Philistines, and his marriage to her, Jdg. 14:1-5, 7, 8. II. His conquest of a lion, and the prize he found in the carcase of it, Jdg. 14:5, 6, 8, 9. III. Samson's riddle proposed to his companions (Jdg. 14:10-14) and unriddled... read more