Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher.”

and they intermarried with them. Israelite sons married their daughters, and Israelite daughters were given in marriage to their sons. And the Israelites served their gods.

As his father was making final arrangements for the marriage, Samson threw a party at Timnah, as was the custom for elite young men.

So his wife was given in marriage to the man who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding.

“I truly thought you must hate her,” her father explained, “so I gave her in marriage to your best man. But look, her younger sister is even more beautiful than she is. Marry her instead.”

Israel Provides Wives for Benjamin

The Israelites had vowed at Mizpah, “We will never give our daughters in marriage to a man from the tribe of Benjamin.”

How can we find wives for the few who remain, since we have sworn by the Lord not to give them our daughters in marriage?”

But we cannot give them our own daughters in marriage because we have sworn with a solemn oath that anyone who does this will fall under God’s curse.”

And when their fathers and brothers come to us in protest, we will tell them, ‘Please be sympathetic. Let them have your daughters, for we didn’t find wives for all of them when we destroyed Jabesh-gilead. And you are not guilty of breaking the vow since you did not actually give your daughters to them in marriage.’”