Bible Strands
Judges 15:1
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Samson declares to his father-in-law his intent to enter his wife's chamber during the wheat harvest, but the father-in-law explicitly refuses him entry.
The words — The Hebrew verb וַיִּפְקֹד (va.yifkod) literally means "and he visited," functioning in this context as a formal visitation that implies marital intimacy.
The thread — The pattern of a husband visiting his wife appears in Genesis 29:21, the provision of a young goat recurs in Genesis 38:17, and the theme of long-term service is echoed in Luke 15:29.
Why it lands — The text records a broken marital arrangement and demands that readers observe how human covenants collapse without explicit divine direction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 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.”
- Genesis 29:21 Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
- 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 my friends.
- 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 old, men of renown.