She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
The writer said God’s Spirit motivated Samson to slaughter the 30 Philistines in Ashkelon (Judges 14:19). Samson was not just taking personal revenge for what his Timnite guests had done to him. He was perhaps unwittingly fulfilling his role as a judge in Israel by slaying the enemies of God’s people. This was an act of holy war, though Samson appears to have carried it out with carnal vengeance. He did God’s will but for the wrong reason. God had chosen Samson as His instrument to begin defeating the Philistines, and He would use him for that purpose even though Samson was a reluctant servant. Thus we see God’s providence overcoming the problem that Samson posed.