SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:5
Y Sansón descendió con su padre y con su madre a Timnat; y cuando llegaron a las viñas de Timnat, he aquí un cachorro de león que venía bramando hacia él.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 14:5
Verse 5. A young lion roared against him.] Came fiercely out upon him, ready to tear him to pieces.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath , etc.] They were prevailed upon to go with him, either because they perceived his affections were so strongly set upon a wife, that they thought it advisable to agree to it, lest it should be of bad consequence to him, or because he let them know that the thing was of God, and what was his design in it: and came to the vineyards of Timnath ; the land of Canaan was a land of vineyards, and particularly that part of it which was inhabited by the Philistines and Phoenicians; and though we nowhere read of the wine of Timnath, yet frequent mention is made in authors of the wine of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Sarepta, inhabited by the above people; these vineyards seem to have lain somewhat out of Samson’s way; but hither he turned on some account or another from his parents, perhaps to eat some grapes: and, behold, a young lion roared against him ; not a whelp, that is expressed by another word, but one more grown, and is afterwards called a lion simply; and, by the Targum, a lion, the son of lions or lionesses; which seeing him in the vineyards, where he was lurking, came out to meet him, and roared at him in a hideous manner, and came up to him to destroy him: these creatures, though now more rare in those parts, were at this time frequent, and in later times: (see 1 Samuel 17:34 1 Kings 13:24 20:36) and several writers make mention of lions in Mesopotamia and Syria; and Strabo f280 , and Pliny speak of a city in Phoenicia near Sidon, called the city of lions, because perhaps it had been much infested with them; and for a like reason it may be some cities in the tribes of Judah and Simeon were called Lebaoth and Bethlebaoth, ( Joshua 15:32 19:6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-9 - By enabling him to kill a lion, God let Samson know what he could do in the strength of the Spirit of the Lord, that he might never be afrai to look the greatest difficulties in the face. He was alone in the vineyards, whither he had rambled. Young people consider not how the exposed themselves to the roaring lion that seeks to devour, when the wander from their prudent, pious parents. Nor do men consider what lions lurk in the vineyards, the vineyards of red wines. Our Lord Jesu having conquered Satan, that roaring lion, believers, like Samson, fin honey in the carcass abundant strength and satisfaction, enough for themselves, and for all their friends.
Original Hebrew
וירד 3381 שׁמשׁון 8123 ואביו 1 ואמו 517 תמנתה 8553 ויבאו 935 עד 5704 כרמי 3754 תמנתה 8553 והנה 2009 כפיר 3715 אריות 738 שׁאג 7580 לקראתו׃ 7125
