Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Judges 14:1-2
SAMSON DESIRES A WIFE OF THE PHILISTINES. (Judges 14:1-5)
Timnath—now Tibna, about three miles from Zorah, his birthplace.
saw a woman . . . of the Philistines; and told his father and his mother, and said, . . . get her for me to wife—In the East parents did, and do in many cases still, negotiate the marriage alliances for their sons. During their period of ascendency, the Philistine invaders had settled in the towns; and the intercourse between them and the Israelites was often of such a friendly and familiar character as to issue in matrimonial relations. Moreover, the Philistines were not in the number of the seven devoted nations of Canaan [Deuteronomy 7:1-3] —with whom the law forbade them to marry.
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