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Judges 14:17

Judges 14:17
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

And she wept before him the seven days, while the feast lasted,.... Those that remained of the seven days, from the…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Judges 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.

I.…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

she pressed him sore lit. reduced him to straitsby her importunity; again in Jdg 16:16.