1. Judges 14:8 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does “behold” communicate?

Judges 14:8 (ESV)

8 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

The term “behold” here communicates that what Samson found caught him by surprise.