it was of the Lord: That is, God permitted it, that it might be a means of bringing about the deliverance of Israel. Such marriages were forbidden to the Israelites, to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations. Jos 11:20; 1Ki 12:15; 2Ki 6:33; 2Ch 10:15, 2Ch 22:7, 2Ch 25:20; Psa 115:3