1 One day Samson went to Timnah, where a young Philistine woman attracted his attention. 2 He went back home and told his father and mother, "A Philistine woman in Timnah caught my attention. Now get her for me because I want to marry her."
3 But his father and mother replied, "Can’t you find a young woman from our tribe or from our own people? Do you have to go to the heathen14:3. Literally, "uncircumcised." Philistines to get a wife?"
But Samson told his father, "Just get her for me, because she’s14:3. "She": this is emphatic in the Hebrew, indicating Samson’s determination that this particular woman become his wife. the one I find attractive."
4 (His father and mother didn’t realize that this was in the Lord’s plans, who was looking for an opportunity to deal with the Philistines; because at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.)