Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary

Judges 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, I. Samson’s courtship of a daughter of the Philistines, and his marriage to her, Judges 14:1-14:5, 14:7, 14:8. II. His conquest of a lion, and the prize he found in the carcase of it, Judges 14:5, 14:6, 14:8, 14:9. III. Samson’s riddle proposed to his companions (Judges 14:10-14:14) and unriddled by the treachery of his wife, Judges 14:15-14:18. IV. The occasion this gave him to kill thirty of the Philistines (Judges 14:19) and to break off his new alliance, Judges 14:20. MHBCC 226.1