12 And Samson saith to them, `Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me `in' the seven days of the banquet, and have found `it' out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;
`Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,
And the queen of Sheba is hearing of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, and cometh to try him with enigmas,
And he saith, `Peace; my lord hath sent me, saying, Lo, now, this, come unto me have two young men from the hill-country of Ephraim, of the sons of the prophets; give, I pray thee, to them, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.'
And the king of Aram saith, `Go thou, enter, and I send a letter unto the king of Israel;' and he goeth and taketh in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand `pieces' of gold, and ten changes of garments.
And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,
your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;
fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.' And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;
and having unclothed him, they put around him a crimson cloak,
All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
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Commentary on Judges 14 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 14
The idea which this chapter gives us of Samson is not what one might have expected concerning one who, by the special designation of heaven, was a Nazarite to God and a deliverer of Israel; and yet really he was both. Here is,
Jdg 14:1-9
Here,
Jdg 14:10-20
We have here an account of Samson's wedding feast and the occasion it gave him to fall foul upon the Philistines.