Samson judges the appropriateness of the Timnite woman not according to covenant law, but entirely according to his own eyes. God’s law made clear that she was not right since she was a Philistine, but she was right in Samson’s eyes. She meets his definition of “Miss Right,” a fact that the narrator chooses to repeat in Judges 14:7. This underlines Samson’s misplaced gaze and mistaken assessment. And it is an illustration of everyone doing what is right in his own eyes, which the book repeats in its epilogue (Judges 17:5; Judges 21:25). It is what leads the people to moral anarchy. The national sin finds expression in the very man designated to relieve the nation of the consequences of that sin. Samson is presented as a type of the people.
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.”