Teks -- Judges 14:1 (NET)

Samson’s Unconsummated Marriage

14:1 Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

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Wesley: Jdg 14:1 - Went

After he was come to mature age.

Wesley: Jdg 14:1 - Timnath

A place not far from the sea.

JFB: Jdg 14:1-2 - Timnath

Now Tibna, about three miles from Zorah, his birthplace.

JFB: Jdg 14:1-2 - saw a woman . . . of the Philistines; and told his father and his mother, and said, . . . get her for me to wife

In the East parents did, and do in many cases still, negotiate the marriage alliances for their sons. During their period of ascendency, the Philistine invaders had settled in the towns; and the intercourse between them and the Israelites was often of such a friendly and familiar character as to issue in matrimonial relations. Moreover, the Philistines were not in the number of the seven devoted nations of Canaan [Deu 7:1-3] --with whom the law forbade them to marry.

Clarke: Jdg 14:1 - Went down to Timnath

Went down to Timnath - A frontier town of the Philistines, at the beginning of the lands belonging to the tribe of Judah, Jos 15:57; but afterwards given up to Dan, Jos 19:43. David took this place from the Philistines, but they again got possession of it in the reign of Ahaz, 2Ch 28:18.

TSK: Jdg 14:1 - Timnath

Timnath : Gen 38:12, Gen 38:13; Jos 15:10, Jos 19:43, aw, Gen 6:2, Gen 34:1, Gen 34:2; 2Sa 11:2; Job 31:1; Psa 119:37; 1Jo 2:16

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Poole: Jdg 14:1 - Timnath

Timnath a place not far from the sea; of which see Gen 38:12 Jos 15:57 19:43 .

Haydock: Jdg 14:1 - Thamnatha

Thamnatha, in the confines of the tribes of Juda and Gad, and of the Philistines, who often took it from the latter. It is called Thamna, Genesis xxxviii. 12, (Bonfrere) and lies near Lidda. (Eusebius)

Gill: Jdg 14:1 - And Samson went down to Timnath // and saw a woman in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines

And Samson went down to Timnath,.... A city which by lot fell to the tribe of Judah, but was afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, and now in the hands of the Philistines, Jos 15:57. Judah is said to go up to it, because the place where he lived lay below it, Gen 38:13, but Samson is said to go down to it, because he lived above it. The Jews ^t differ about the reconciliation of these two places; some say there were two of this name, the one is a descent, and the other is an ascent; others say there was but one, so situated, that they that came to it on one side ascended, and they that came to it on the other side descended. Bochart ^u approves of the former. According to Bunting ^w, this was twelve miles from Eshtaol, where Samson lived:

and saw a woman in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; who at this time dwelt there; he saw no doubt many other women besides her, but he took special notice of her, and entertained a particular affection for her; or, in other words, on sight of her fell in love with her.