1. Judges 14:9 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is meant by the words “eating as he went”?

Judges 14:9 (ESV)

9 He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

The construction used here is meant to highlight the callousness of Samson’s act: he nonchalantly eats as he carries on his walk to Timnah.1