The boy is now an adult, with his own mission in life as God’s deliverer for Israel from the ever-persistent Philistines. It was God’s desire for him to associate with them, but not for the purpose of compromising the ways of the Lord. His two-line riddle (v. 14) was turned against him by his Philistine wife. But the Spirit of the Lord turned it into a victory against 30 Philistine men of Ashkelon. The threats that evil men made against his wife could have been exposed by her to Samson so he could help her through it. Rather, she chose to turn against him and side with her people. Marriage is serious business, and the commitment we make to one another is supposed to include believing in one another. To fail in this is to create a separation of spirits which grows into broken hearts.
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