Judges 14:4
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| Overview - Judges 14 | |
| 1 | Samson desires a wife of the Philistines. |
| 6 | In his journey he kills a lion. |
| 8 | In a second journey he finds honey in the carcase. |
| 10 | Samson's marriage feast. |
| 12 | His riddle by his wife is made known. |
| 19 | He spoils thirty Philistines. |
| 20 | His wife is married to another. |
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Judges 14:4 (King James Version)
But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
- it was of the Lord
- That is, God permitted it, that it might be a means of bringing about the deliverance of Israel. Such marriages were forbidden to the Israelites, to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations.
- Joshua 11:20 ; 1 Kings 12:15 ; 2 Kings 6:33 ; 2 Chronicles 10:15 ; 22:7 25:20 Psalms 115:3
- had dominion
- 13:1 15:11 Deuteronomy 28:48