¹⁸ And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages, and they settled there.^(A)

⁵⁷ before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you are a mockery to the daughters of Edom^[a] and all her neighbors and to the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.^(A)

²⁷ Therefore I stretched out my hand against you, reduced your rations, and gave you up to the will of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.^(A)

¹⁰ Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin.

⁹ And watch: if it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm; but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”^(A)

Samson’s Marriage

14 Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman.

⁴⁸ And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

⁴¹ Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen towns with their villages.

¹⁰ and the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh, and passes along by Timnah;^(A)