Judges 14:1 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Judges 14:1

Samson’s Philistine Wife

1 Now Samson went down ^ato Timnah, and ^bsaw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

2 So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, ^aget her for me as a wife.”

3 Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of ^ayour brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the ^buncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for¹ she pleases me well.”

4 But his father and mother did not know that it was ^aof the Lord—that He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time ^bthe Philistines had dominion over Israel.

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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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