Within a while after. — “After days” (Judges 11:4; Judges 14:8).
In the time of wheat harvest. — This, in the Shephelah, would be about the middle of May.
Visited his wife with a kid. — We find the same present given by Judah to Tamar in Genesis 38:17. We may compare the complaint of the elder brother of the prodigal, given him a kid (Luke 15:29).
I will go in to my wife. — Uxoriousness was the chief secret of the weakness and ruin of Samson, as it was afterwards of a very different type of man, Solomon.
Into the chamber. — Song of Solomon 1:4; Song of Solomon 3:4.