Footnotes

1. Judges 14:1 tn Heb “and he saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”
2. Judges 14:2 tn Heb “and he went up.”
3. Judges 14:2 tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”
4. Judges 14:3 tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.
5. Judges 14:3 tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”
6. Judges 14:3 tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.
7. Judges 14:3 tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”
8. Judges 14:4 tn Heb “this was from the LORD.”
9. Judges 14:4 tn Heb “for an opportunity he was seeking from the Philistines.”