Teks -- Judges 14:17 (NET)

14:17 She cried on his shoulder until the party was almost over. Finally, on the seventh day, he told her because she had nagged him so much. Then she told the young men the solution to the riddle.

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

Wesley: Jdg 14:17 - The seven days

That is, on the residue of the seven days; namely, after the third day.

JFB: Jdg 14:12-18 - I will now put forth a riddle

Riddles are a favorite Oriental amusement at festive entertainments of this nature, and rewards are offered to those who give the solution. Samson's riddle related to honey in the lion's carcass. The prize he offered was thirty sindinim, or shirts, and thirty changes of garments, probably woolen. Three days were passed in vain attempts to unravel the enigma. The festive week was fast drawing to a close when they secretly enlisted the services of the newly married wife, who having got the secret, revealed it to her friends.

Clarke: Jdg 14:17 - And she wept before him

And she wept before him - Not through any love to him, for it appears she had none, but to oblige her paramours; and of this he soon had ample proof.

TSK: Jdg 14:17 - the seven // she lay // and she told

the seven : or, the rest of the seven days

she lay : Jdg 16:6, Jdg 16:13, Jdg 16:16; Gen 3:6; Job 2:9; Pro 7:21; Luk 11:8, Luk 18:4, Luk 18:5

and she told : Pro 2:16, Pro 2:17

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

Poole: Jdg 14:17 - The seven days, while their feast lasted

The seven days, while their feast lasted i.e. on the residue of the seven days, to wit, after the third day. It is a familiar synecdoche. Or, on the seventh of the days on which the feast was ; and then the following clause, on the seventh day , is only the noun repeated for the pronoun, on that day ; as is most frequent, as 1Ki 8:1 , Solomon assembled— unto Solomon , i.e. unto himself.

Gill: Jdg 14:17 - And she wept before him the seven days, while the feast lasted // and it came to pass on the seven day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him // and she told the riddle to the children of her people

And she wept before him the seven days, while the feast lasted,.... Those that remained of the seven days, from the fourth to this time, as Kimchi seems rightly to interpret it; though some think she began to beseech him with tears, on the first day of the feast, to impart the secret to her for her own satisfaction; and then, after the men had urged her on the fourth day to persuade her husband to it, she continued pressing him more earnestly with tears unto the seventh day. Some, as Abarbinel observes, and to whom he seems to incline, think there were fourteen days, seven days before the festival began, on the last of which they importuned her to try to get the secret from him, Jdg 14:15, and that she continued pressing all the second seven days; but it seems quite clear that it was at the beginning of the seven days of the feast that the riddle was put, which was to be explained within that time, Jdg 14:12.

and it came to pass on the seven day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him; pressed him most earnestly with her entreaties, cries, and tears:

and she told the riddle to the children of her people; though she knew it would be to her husband's detriment, and that he must be obliged to give them thirty sheets of linen, and as many suits of apparel, and though it is probable she had promised not to tell them.