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Judges 15:1

in Judges 15

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

KJV

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

This verse in Judges 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Visited his wife with a kid - A common present (see Gen 38:17; Luk 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.

This site's exposition

the time of wheat harvest

on Judges 15:1-3

The reader was told at 14:20 that the wife had been given away to the companion, so this chapter opens with Samson learning what the previous chapter already reported. Wheat harvest fixes the season and supplies the fuel, since the grain is standing and dry when he arrives. Barnes takes her still being in her father's house as a sign she was betrothed rather than married, which is why the father can offer the younger sister as a substitute. Samson's word at verse 3 argues a case rather than a grievance: the tie that made his raid on Ashkelon at 14:19 a matter between kin has been cut by the other side.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Wheat harvest - Which was the proper season for what follows. With a kid - As a token of reconciliation. Into the chamber - Into her chamber, which the women had separate from the mens.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It was the dry season, dry far beyond our experience, and the grain in a most combustible state. Samson visited his wife with a kid--It is usual for a visitor in the East to carry some present; in this case, it might be not only as a token of civility, but of reconciliation. he said--that is, to himself.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֨יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • מִיָּמִ֜יםfrom days

    miyamimH31172304 times

  • בִּימֵ֣יin [the] days of

    bimeiH31172304 times

  • קְצִיר־[the] harvest of

    ketzir-H7105

  • חִטִּ֗יםwheat<s>

    chitimH2406

  • וַיִּפְקֹ֨דand he visited

    vaiyifkodH6485303 times

  • שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹןSamson

    shimshonH812338 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • אִשְׁתּוֹ֙wife his

    ʾishtoH802781 times

  • בִּגְדִ֣יwith a kid of

    bigdiH142316 times

  • עִזִּ֔יםgoats

    ʾizimH579574 times

  • וַיֹּ֕אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • אָבֹ֥אָהlet me go

    ʾavoahH9352568 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • אִשְׁתִּ֖יwife my

    ʾishtiH802781 times

  • הֶחָ֑דְרָהthe chamber towards

    hechaderahH231538 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H38085168 times

  • נְתָנ֥וֹhe permitted him

    netanoH54142011 times

  • אָבִ֖יהָfather her

    ʾavihaH11212 times

  • לָבֽוֹא׃to go

    lavo'H9352568 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 6:4

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and afterward as well—when the sons of God had relations with the daughters of men. And they bore them children who became the mighty men of…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:33

      We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak that come from the Nephilim! We seemed like grasshoppers in our own sight, and we must have seemed the same to them!”

    • Deuteronomy 3:11

      (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

    • 2 Samuel 21:15–22

      Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.

    • 1 Samuel 17:4

      Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

    • Deuteronomy 2:20–21

      (That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.

  • Through

    Luke 15:29

    But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with…

    it leads to

    • Zechariah 7:3

      by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”

  • Through

    Genesis 38:17

    “I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”

    it leads to

    • Genesis 38:20

      Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

    • Ezekiel 16:33

      Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.

About Judges

Samson Destroys the Philistines with an Ass' Jawbone — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Samson Destroys the Philistines with an Ass' Jawbone — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.