Richteren 15:2

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Doch haar vader stond hem niet toe naar binnen te gaan en zeide: Ik dacht zeker dat gij een geduchten haat tegen haar hadt opgevat; daarom heb ik haar aan uw makker gegeven. Maar haar jongere zuster is immers schooner dan zij? Laat zij in haar plaats uw vrouw worden.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
en sprak: Ik meende, dat gij vergramd op haar waart geworden, en ik heb haar aan uwen vriend gegeven. Maar zij heeft ene jongere zuster, die is schoner dan zij, laat die de uwe zijn in hare plaats.

Staten Vertaling
want haar vader zeide: Ik sprak zeker, dat gij haar ganselijk haattet, zo heb ik haar aan uw metgezel gegeven. Is niet haar kleinste zuster schoner dan zij? Laat ze u toch zijn in de plaats van haar.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I verily: Judges 14:16, Judges 14:20, Acts 26:9

I gave: Judges 14:20, Genesis 38:14

take her: Heb. let her be thine

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 22:13 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her,.... Not only thought so, but said so, and had said it over and over again; for the words are, "saying I said" t, affirmed it confidently and constantly, that "in hating thou hast hated her" u, with an implacable hatred, that there was no hope of any reconciliation:

therefore I gave her to thy companion; this he said to excuse his daughter, and soften his resentment, that it was not his daughter's doing, but his, and that he had disposed of her not to anybody, but to a companion of Samson's; and what follows seems to be said with the same view, for he might be in some fear of Samson, knowing him to be a man of spirit and strength:

is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her; that is, to wife; and two things he observes to recommend her, her youth and beauty, in which she was preferable to her sister. Such incestuous marriages were common with the old Canaanites, and it seems still continued; but were condemned by the law of God, and not allowed an Israelite, which Samson knew full well, and therefore listened not to the proposal; see Leviticus 18:3.

t אמר אמרתי "dicendo dixi", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator. u שנא שנאתה "odiendo odires eam", Pagninus, Montanus; so Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I gave her - In marriage. Samson had probably not heard of this before. Samson’s father had paid the dowry for the older sister; her father therefore offers her sister in her room. The fear of Samson probably also influenced him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 15:2. Thou hadst utterly hated her — As he was conscious she had given him great cause so to do.

Her younger sister — The father appears to have been perfectly sincere in this offer.