³ Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of ^(A)your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the ^(B)uncircumcised Philistines?”

And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for ^[a]she pleases me well.”

³⁶ Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.”

¹⁸ Then he became very thirsty; so he cried out to the Lord and said, ^(A)“You have given this great deliverance by the hand of Your servant; and now shall I die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”

^4 (A)Then Saul said to his armorbearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest ^(B)these uncircumcised men come and thrust me through and ^[a]abuse me.”

But his armorbearer would not, ^(C)for he was greatly afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword and ^(D)fell on it.

²⁶ Then David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away ^(A)the reproach from Israel? For who is this ^(B)uncircumcised Philistine, that he should ^(C)defy the armies of ^(D)the living God?”

⁶ Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these ^(A)uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will work for us. For nothing restrains the Lord ^(B)from saving by many or by few.”

² and when the Lord your God delivers ^(A)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. ^(B)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them. ^3 (C)Nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.

^12 (A)Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. ¹³ But you shall ^(B)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and ^(C)cut down their wooden images ¹⁴ (for you shall worship ^(D)no other god, for the Lord, whose ^(E)name is Jealous, is a ^(F)jealous God), ¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(G)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(H)invites you and you ^(I)eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and you take of ^(J)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^(K)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.