Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Three days ... on the seventh day - Proposed alterations, such as "six days ... on the fourth day," are unnecessary if it be remembered that the narrator passes on first to the seventh day (at Judges 14:15), and then goes back at Judges 14:16 and beginning of Judges 14:17 to what happened on the 4th, 5th, and 6th days.
To take that we have - See the margin. They affirm that they were only invited to the wedding for the sake of plundering them by means of this riddle, and if Samson' s wife was a party to plundering her own countrymen, she should suffer for it.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 14:14:
Psalms 49:4
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