Judges 14:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

His father went down. The father is mentioned as the head and representative of Samson's relatives.

Samson made there a feast. The wedding festivity lasted a week. The men and women were probably entertained in separate apartments-the bride, with her female relatives, at her parents' house; Samson, in some place obtained for the occasion, as he was a stranger. A large number of paranymphs, or 'friends of the bridegroom,' furnished, no doubt, by the bride's family, attended his party, ostensibly to honour the nuptials, but really as spies on his proceedings.

Judges 14:10

10 So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.