But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.
In the time of wheat harvest - i:e., about the end of our April, or the beginning of our May. The shocks of grain were then gathered into heaps, and lying on the field, or on the threshing-floors. It was the dry season-dry far beyond our experience-and the grain was in a most combustible state.
Samson visited his wife with a kid. It is usual for a visitor in the East to carry some present. In this case it might be not only as a token of civility, but of reconciliation; and a kid was esteemed a great delicacy (cf. Genesis 38:16-17; Luke 15:29).
He said - i:e., to himself. It was his secret purpose.
Into the chamber - the female apartments, or harem.