14 2 Samson desireth to have a wife of the Philistines. 6 He killeth a lion. 12 He propoundeth a riddle. 19 He killeth thirty. 20 His wife forsaketh him, and taketh another.

Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines,

And he came up and told his father and his mother and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore [a]give me her to wife.

Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there [b]never a wife among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, that thou must go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Give me her, for she pleaseth me well.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:2 Hebrew, take her for me to wife.
  2. Judges 14:3 Though his parents did justly reprove him, yet it appeareth that this was the secret work of the Lord, verse 4.

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