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And Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Aksah in marriage to the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher.”
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Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; so Caleb gave his daughter Aksah to him in marriage.
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They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
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“When you, Lord, went out from Seir, when you marched from the land of Edom, the earth shook, the heavens poured, the clouds poured down water.
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The river Kishon swept them away, the age-old river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul; be strong!
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But grant me this one request,” she said. “Give me two months to roam the hills and weep with my friends, because I will never marry.”
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“You may go,” he said. And he let her go for two months. She and her friends went into the hills and wept because she would never marry.
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He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He gave his daughters away in marriage to those outside his clan, and for his sons he brought in thirty young women as wives from outside his clan. Ibzan led Israel seven years.
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Samson’s Marriage
Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman.
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Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey.
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Wives for the Benjamites
The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”
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“How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the Lord not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”
