Judges 14:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. ”

Judges 14:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Timnath - See Joshua 15:10 and note. It was below Zorah Judges 13:2 , about three miles S. W. of it.
Judges 14:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Samson at Timnath. Samson's adventures are all bound up with his relations to Philistine women one in Timnath, a second in Gaza, and a third in the valley of Sorek. The name of only one of them is...
Judges 14:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. Went down to Timnath - A frontier town of the Philistines, at the beginning of the lands belonging to...
Judges 14:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Samson marries a wife of the Philistines: he rends a lion in pieces, in whose carcase he afterwards finds a swarm of bees and honey: he puts forth a riddle to his companions, the interpretation of...
Judges 14:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. Timnath - now Tibna, about three miles from Zorah, his birthplace. Saw a woman ... of the P...
Judges 14:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Marriage of Samson 1-5. Samson chooses a wife among the Philistines. He and his parents go down to Timnath.
Judges 14:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

To Timnath. — This town, of which the site still retains the name Tibneh, is perhaps the same as that in Genesis 38:12 , unless that be a town in the mountains of Judah, as Judah is there said to...
Judges 14:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

SAMSON PLUNGING INTO LIFE Judges 13:24-25 ; Judges 14:1-20 Or all who move before us in the Book of Judges Samson is preeminently the popular hero. In rude giant strength and wild daring he st...
Judges 14:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 t...
Judges 14:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Judges 14:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The history of Samson occupies the whole of this Chapter. His marriage with a daughter of the Philistines: his slaying a young lion: the story of the swarm of bees after this, in the carcas...
Judges 14:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Samson went down to Timnath ,.... A city which by lot fell to the tribe of Judah, but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, and now in the hands of the Philistines, Joshua 15:57 . Judah is...
Judges 14:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. Ver. 1. And Samson went down to Timnath. ] Whether to the market, or the sports, or some great feas...
Judges 14:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Samson went After he was come to mature age; to Timnath A place not far from the sea. Get her for me to wife Herein he is an example to all children, conformable to the fifth commandment. Chil...
Judges 14:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Samson was not a leader, but a rugged individualist.He knew the Philistines were oppressors of Israel, yet he consorted with the Philistines when it pleased him, and he attacked them when he pleased....
Judges 14:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Samson Chooses a Philistine Wife; A Lion Slain by Samson. B. C. 1141. 1 And Samson went...
Judges 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JUDGES CHAPTER 14 Samson desires to wife a daughter of the Philistines of Timnath; and this of the Lord, for an occasion against them, Judges 14:1-4 . His parents go down with him to Timnath: a...
Judges 14:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 14 Samson's Activities Begin. This chapter deals with the commencement of Samson's life's work, with his courtship and marriage of a Philistine woman, his meeting with a young lion as he w...
Judges 14:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Judges 14:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 14:1 . Timnath, situate in mount Ephraim, often taken and retaken in successive wars. To form a matrimonial connection with the Philistines, or with any of the idolatrous nations, was a vio...
Judges 14:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Samson went down to Timnath. Samson’s first love In considering Samson’s choice of a wife, we are conscious of a feeling of painful disappointment. In choosing a Philistine, we begin to see his...
Judges 14:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 mile...
Judges 14:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Samson went down to Timnath, in the region where the highlands of Judah merge into the plains of Philistia, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the philistines, who were therefore en...
Judges 14:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:16 ; 2 Samuel 11:2 ; Genesis 34:1 ; Genesis 34:2 ; Genesis 38:12 ; Genesis 38:13 ; Genesis 6:2 ; Job 31:1 ; Joshua 15:10 ; Joshua 19:43 ; Psalms 119:37
Judges 14:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Went — After he was come to mature age. Timnath — A place not far from the sea.

Judges 14:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judges 14:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 14:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Judges 14:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Judges 14:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Judges 14:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 14:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Judges 14:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Judges 14:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

Judges 14:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Judges 14:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Judges 14:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Judges 14:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 14:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 14:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judges 14:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Judges 14:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 14:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Judges 14:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Judges 14:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Judges 14:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Judges 14:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Judges 14:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Judges 14:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes