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Jdg 14:1-5. Samson desires a wife of the Philistines.
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 [Deu 7:1-3] - with whom the law forbade them to marry.