Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Ver. 6. Burnt her and her father with fire.] Thus the fear of the wicked cometh upon them, Pro 10:24 and justly, when they prefer iniquity before affliction, as Samson's wife had done. See Judges 14:15. Josephus saith that together with her they burned all her kindred. She should have been of his mind who said, Potius in ardentem rogue insiluero quam ullum peccatum in Deum commisero. I will leap into a bonfire, rather than sin against God.