Teks -- Judges 14:20 (NET)

14:20 Samson’s bride was then given to his best man.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jdg 14:20 - Was given

By her father.

Wesley: Jdg 14:20 - Whom he had used

That is, to the chief of the bride - men, to whom he had shewed most respect and kindness.

JFB: Jdg 14:19-20 - went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them

This town was about twenty-four miles west by southwest from Timnah; and his selection of this place, which was dictated by the Divine Spirit, was probably owing to its bitter hostility to Israel.

JFB: Jdg 14:19-20 - took their spoil

The custom of stripping a slain enemy was unknown in Hebrew warfare.

JFB: Jdg 14:20 - Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend

That is, "the friend of the bridegroom," who was the medium of communicating during the festivities between him and his bride. The acceptance of her hand, therefore, was an act of base treachery, that could not fail to provoke the just resentment of Samson.

Clarke: Jdg 14:20 - But Samson’ s wife was given to his companion

But Samson’ s wife was given to his companion - This was the same kind of person who is called the friend of the bridegroom, Joh 3:29. And it is very likely that she loved this person better than she loved her husband, and went to him as soon as Samson had gone to his father’ s house at Zorah. She might, however, have thought herself abandoned by him, and therefore took another; this appears to have been the persuasion of her father, Jdg 15:2. But her betraying his secret and his interests to his enemies was a full proof he was not very dear to her; though, to persuade him to the contrary, she shed many crocodile tears; see Jdg 14:16. He could not keep his own secret, and he was fool enough to suppose that another would be more faithful to him than he was to himself. Multitudes complain of the treachery of friends betraying their secrets, etc., never considering that they themselves have been their first betrayers, in confiding to others what they pretend to wish should be a secret to the whole world! If a man never let his secret out of his own bosom, it is impossible that he should ever be betrayed.

TSK: Jdg 14:20 - given to // his friend

given to : Jdg 15:2

his friend : Psa 55:12, Psa 55:13; Jer 9:5; Mic 7:5; Mat 26:49, Mat 26:50; Joh 3:29, Joh 13:18

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jdg 14:20 - Samson’ s wife was given

Samson’ s wife was given by her father, to the chief of the bridemen, to whom he had showed most respect and kindness.

Haydock: Jdg 14:20 - Companions

Companions, the chief friends of the bridegroom, (John iii. 29,) the paranymph. (St. Ambrose) (Calmet) ---

Protestants, "But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend." It seems her father had supposed, from Samson's keeping away for a long time, that he had abandoned her. (Haydock) ---

But, though he offered some sort of recompense, (Menochius) he justly fell a victim to the people's rage, who abhorred adultery, (Calmet) and were irritated at the persecution which he had brought upon them, chap. xv. 2, 6. (Haydock)

Gill: Jdg 14:20 - But Samson's wife was given to his companion // and whom he had used as his friend

But Samson's wife was given to his companion,.... By her father, and with her consent, both being affronted and provoked by Samson leaving her, who judged her not only to be injured, but hereby discharged from him, and free to marry another:

and whom he had used as his friend; though there were thirty of them that were his companions, yet there was one of them that was the principal of them, and was the most intimate with him, whom he used in the most friendly manner, and admitted to a more free conversation than the rest, the same that is called the friend of the bridegroom, Joh 3:29 while the others were called the children of the bridechamber, Mat 9:15. It is not unlikely that this person had too much intimacy with Samson's wife before, and so had the secret of the riddle from her, and so very readily married her, as soon as Samson departed; and all this furnished out an occasion and opportunity, which Samson sought for, to be revenged on the Philistines, as in the following chapter.