士师记 15:1

Chinese Union (Simplified)

过 了 些 日 子 ， 到 割 麦 子 的 时 候 ， 参 孙 带 着 一 只 山 羊 羔 去 看 他 的 妻 ， 说 ： 我 要 进 内 室 见 我 的 妻 。 他 岳 父 不 容 他 进 去 ，

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
參孫火燒非利士人的禾稼過了些日子，到收割麥子的時候，參孫帶著一隻山羊羔去看他的妻子；他心裡說：“我要進內室去見我的妻子。”但是他妻子的父親不讓他進去。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a kid: Genesis 38:17, Luke 15:29

I will go: Genesis 6:4, Genesis 29:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 22:13 - General Judges 19:3 - went

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But it came to pass within a while after,.... Or "after days", a year after, the same phrase as in Judges 14:8 in the time of wheat harvest; which began at Pentecost, as barley harvest did at the passover; this circumstance is mentioned for the sake of the following piece of history:

that Samson visited his wife with a kid; by this time his passion of anger subsided, and he "remembered" his wife, as the Targum expresses it, and thought proper to return to her, and attempt a reconciliation with her; and for that purpose took a kid with him to eat a meal with her in her own apartment, which in those days was reckoned an elegant entertainment, and was a present to a king, 1 Samuel 16:20. Isidore s derives the Latin word for a kid, "ab edendo", from eating, as if it was food by way of eminency, as it is both savoury and wholesome:

and he said, I will go with my wife into the chamber; where she was, as women had their chambers and apartments by themselves; this he said within himself, or resolved in his own mind, and perhaps expressed it in her father's hearing, or however moved that way, which plainly indicated his design:

but her father would not suffer him to go in; placed himself perhaps between him and the door, and parleyed with him, and declared he should not go into his daughter's chamber; Samson, through his superior strength, could easily have pushed him away, and broke open the door, but he did not choose to use such violent methods, and patiently heard what he had to say, and submitted.

s Origin. l. 12. c. 1. p. 101.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Visited his wife with a kid - A common present (see Genesis 38:17; Luke 15:29). From Samson’s wife being still in her father’s house, it would seem that she was only betrothed, not actually married, to his companion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XV

Samson, going to visit his wife, finds her bestowed on another,

1, 2.

He is incensed, vows revenge, and burns the corn of the

Philistines, 3-5.

They burn Samson's wife and her father, 6.

He is still incensed, makes a great slaughter among them, 7, 8.

The Philistines gather together against Israel, and to appease

them the men of Judah bind Samson, and deliver him into their

hands, 9-13.

The Spirit of the Lord comes upon him; he breaks his bonds,

finds the jaw-bone of an ass, and therewith kills a thousand

men, 14-16.

He is sorely fatigued; and, being thirsty, God miraculously

produces water from an opening of the ground in Lehi, and he

is refreshed, 17-19.

He judges Israel in the time of the Philistines twenty years,

20.

NOTES ON CHAP. XV

Verse Judges 15:1. Visited his wife with a kid — On her betraying him, he had, no doubt, left her in great disgust. After some time his affection appears to have returned; and, taking a kid, or perhaps a fawn, as a present, he goes to make reconciliation, and finds her given to his brideman; probably, the person to whom she betrayed his riddle.