Judices 14:7

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Quadraginta annorum eram quando misit me Moyses famulus Domini de Cadesbarne, ut considerarem terram, nuntiavique ei quod mihi verum videbatur.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Descenditque, et locutus est mulieri quæ placuerat oculis ejus.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Descenditque et locutus est mulieri, quae placuerat oculis eius.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he went down, and talked with the woman,.... Entered into a conversation with her, that he might the better judge of her other qualifications, besides that of outward form and beauty, whether she would be a suitable yoke fellow for him; and he talked with her about marriage, and proposed it to her, or talked about her to her father and near relations; and, as the Targum expresses it, asked the woman, not only asked of her consent, but demanded her of her friends: it may refer, as Abarbinel observes, to his father, that he went down and talked with the woman and with her relations about her, concerning the affair of his son's marriage with her:

and she pleased Samson well; he liked her conversation as well as her person, and the more he conversed with her, the more agreeable she was to him, and the more desirous he was to marry her. Though some observe from hence, that she did not please the father of Samson as himself; so Abarbinel.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 14:7. And talked with the woman — That is, concerning marriage; thus forming the espousals.