12 And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments;
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel,
And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon in connection with the name of Jehovah, and came to prove him with enigmas.
And he said, All is well. My master has sent me saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.
And the king of Syria said, Well! go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [shekels] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,
Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
His disciples say to him, Lo, now thou speakest openly and utterest no allegory.
Fulfil the week [with] this one: then we will give thee the other one also, for the service that thou shalt serve me yet seven other years. And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week [with] this one, and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife.
and having taken off his garment, put on him a scarlet cloak;
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
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Commentary on Judges 14 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 14
The idea which this chapter gives us of Samson is not what one might have expected concerning one who, by the special designation of heaven, was a Nazarite to God and a deliverer of Israel; and yet really he was both. Here is,
Jdg 14:1-9
Here,
Jdg 14:10-20
We have here an account of Samson's wedding feast and the occasion it gave him to fall foul upon the Philistines.