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Then Samson went down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.

So he came ^(F1)back and told his father and ^(F2)mother, "I saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines; so now, get her for me as a wife."

But his father and his mother said to him, "Is there no woman among the daughters of your ^(C1)relatives, or among all ^(F1)our people, that you go to ^(C2)take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" Yet Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, because she is right ^(F2)for me."

However, his father and mother did not know that ^(C1)this was of the LORD, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. And at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.