Giudici 14:7

7 Poi discese, e parlò alla donna, ed ella piacque agli occhi di Sansone.

Giudici 14:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 14:7

And he went down, and talked with the woman
Entered into a conversation with her, that he might the better judge of her other qualifications, besides that of outward form and beauty, whether she would be a suitable yoke fellow for him; and he talked with her about marriage, and proposed it to her, or talked about her to her father and near relations; and, as the Targum expresses it, asked the woman, not only asked of her consent, but demanded her of her friends: it may refer, as Abarbinel observes, to his father, that he went down and talked with the woman and with her relations about her, concerning the affair of his son's marriage with her:

and she pleased Samson well;
he liked her conversation as well as her person, and the more he conversed with her, the more agreeable she was to him, and the more desirous he was to marry her. Though some observe from hence, that she did not please the father of Samson as himself; so Abarbinel.

Giudici 14:7 In-Context

5 Sansone adunque, con suo padre e con sua madre, discese in Timnat; e, come furono giunti alle vigne di Timnat, ecco, un leoncello veniva ruggendo incontro a lui.

6 E lo Spirito del Signore si avventò sopra Sansone, ed egli lacerò quel leoncello, come se avesse lacerato un capretto, senza aver cosa alcuna in mano; e non dichiarò a suo padre, nè a sua madre, ciò ch’egli avea fatto.

7 Poi discese, e parlò alla donna, ed ella piacque agli occhi di Sansone.

8 E alquanti giorni appresso, tornando per menarla, si torse dalla via, per vedere la carogna del leone; ed ecco, dentro della carogna del leone v’era uno sciame d’api, e del miele.

9 Ed egli ne prese nelle palme delle mani, e ne andava mangiando; e andò a suo padre e a sua madre, e ne diede loro, ed essi ne mangiarono; ma non dichiarò loro che avesse tolto il miele dalla carogna del leone.