SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:17
Y ella lloró delante de él los siete días que ellos tuvieron banquete; mas al séptimo día él se lo declaró, porque le constriñó a ello ; y ella lo declaró a los hijos de su pueblo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 14:17
Verse 17. And she wept before him] Not through any love to him, for it appears she had none, but to oblige her paramours; and of this he soon had ample proof.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. And she wept before him the seven days, while the feast lasted , etc.] Those that remained of the seven days, from the fourth to this time, as Kimchi seems rightly to interpret it; though some think she began to beseech him with tears, on the first day of the feast, to impart the secret to her for her own satisfaction; and then, after the men had urged her on the fourth day to persuade her husband to it, she continued pressing him more earnestly with tears unto the seventh day. Some, as Abarbinel observes, and to whom he seems to incline, think there were fourteen days, seven days before the festival began, on the last of which they importuned her to try to get the secret from him, ( Judges 14:15), and that she continued pressing all the second seven days; but it seems quite clear that it was at the beginning of the seven days of the feast that the riddle was put, which was to be explained within that time, ( Judges 14:12) and it came to pass on the seven day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him ; pressed him most earnestly with her entreaties, cries, and tears: and she told the riddle to the children of her people ; though she knew it would be to her husband’s detriment, and that he must be obliged to give them thirty sheets of linen, and as many suits of apparel, and though it is probable she had promised not to tell them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-20 - Samson's riddle literally meant no more than that he had got honey, for food and for pleasure, from the lion, which in its strength and fur was ready to devour him. But the victory of Christ over Satan, by mean of his humiliation, agonies, and death, and the exaltation tha followed to him, with the glory thence to the Father, and spiritual advantages to his people, seem directly alluded to. And even death that devouring monster, being robbed of his sting, and stripped of his horror, forwards the soul to the realms of bliss. In these and othe senses, out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness. Samson's companions obliged his wife to get the explanatio from him. A worldly wife, or a worldly friend, is to a godly man as a enemy in the camp, who will watch every opportunity to betray him. N union can be comfortable or lasting, where secrets cannot be intrusted without danger of being divulged. Satan, in his temptations, could no do us the mischief he does, if he did not plough with the heifer of ou corrupt nature. His chief advantage against us arises from his correspondence with our deceitful hearts and inbred lusts. This prove an occasion of weaning Samson from his new relations. It were well for us, if the unkindness we meet with from the world, and ou disappointments in it, obliged us by faith and prayer to return to ou heavenly Father's house, and to rest there. See how little confidenc is to be put in man. Whatever pretence of friendship may be made, real Philistine will soon be weary of a true Israelite __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ותבך 1058 עליו 5921 שׁבעת 7651 הימים 3117 אשׁר 834 היה 1961 להם המשׁתה 4960 ויהי 1961 ביום 3117 השׁביעי 7637 ויגד 5046 לה כי 3588 הציקתהו 6693 ותגד 5046 החידה 2420 לבני 1121 עמה׃ 5971
