¹⁴ So she took off her widow’s garments, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and ^(A)sat in an open place which was on the way to Timnah; for she saw ^(B)that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as a wife.

¹⁰ Then the border ^[a]turned westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (which is Chesalon), went down to Beth Shemesh, and passed on to ^(A)Timnah.

⁵⁷ Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages;

⁴³ Elon, Timnah, ^(A)Ekron,

Samson’s Philistine Wife

14 Now Samson went down ^(A)to Timnah, and ^(B)saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

² So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, ^(A)get her for me as a wife.”

^18 (A)The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there.