Judges 14

Judges 14:1

Timnath] In the Tribe of Dan: East from Ekron of the Philistines Here Sampson intended to have his first wife. And Judah had his sheep-shearing, Gen. XXXVIII. 12. This Citie was given to the Tribe of Judah, Josh. XV. 57. And after, out of that Tribe to Dan, Josh. XIX. 43. But the Philistines most what possessed it. And in the dayes of wicked Ahaz, we read that they took it from him, 2 Chron XXVIII. 18. Some make this in Dan, and that in Judah to be divers Cities.

Sampson] Sampson by extraordinary motion of the Lord, the lawfull Dispenser with his own Law, seeks a marriage, though a Nazarite, with a Philistine: had thirty of the Philistines brought as companions to be with him at the nuptial feast, to honour him in shew; but more in jealousie and fear of him, seeing and noting some things extraordinary in his person. His wife weeping before him the seven dayes while the Feast lasted, but more after the third day, and most upon the seventh and last day, he expounds his Riddle to her; and she to the companions. He performes what he had promised thereupon: And in anger; for their fraud, and her treachery, he went away; leaving them; and her too behinde him.