1. Judges 14:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What indicates that Samson’s response is emphatic?

Judges 14:3 (ESV)

3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

Samson literally responds to his father, Her—get for me. The placement of the direct object first in the clause shows that Samson’s response is emphatic. The sense is She is the one you must get for me!” Samson is insensitive toward his parents and their grief over the issue, and he does not care about the consequences this will have for his mission; he simply will not be denied.1