Judges 14:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴But 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.

Judges 14:4 —

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Joshua 11:20
For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Psalms 115:3
But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2 Kings 6:33
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
2 Chronicles 10:15
So the king hearkened not unto the people: for the cause was of God, that the LORD might perform his word, which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. Samson, under the extraordinary guidance of Providence, seeks an occasion of quarrelling with the Philistines, by joining in affinity with them—a strange method, but the truth is Samson was himself a riddle, a paradox of a man, did that which was really great and good, by that which was seemingly weak and evil, because he was designed not to be a pattern to us (who must walk by rule, not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

3-4. Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren--that is, “of thine own tribe”--a Danite woman. Samson said ... Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well--literally, “she is right in mine eyes”; not by her beautiful countenance or handsome figure, but right or fit for his purpose. And this throws light on the historian’s remark in reference to the resistance of his parents: they “kn…