1. Judges 14:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does Samson’s “Now get her for me as my wife” reveal?

Judges 14:2 (ESV)

2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”

Samson clearly has scorn for the covenant of grace. Israel was clearly instructed not to intermarry with non-Israelites (see Exodus 34:15–16; Deuteronomy 7:1–3; Judges 2:2; Judges 3:5–6). Samson’s marriage is exogamous: twice in the first two verses of this chapter we are told that this woman was one of the “daughters of the Philistines.”