It is important not to underestimate the significance of this remark. “As a reader proceeds through the book...the evidences of this problem increase. Gideon, who has a Shechemite concubine, has a son, Abimelech, who is as Canaanized as can be imagined (Judges 8:29 – 9:57). Gilead’s cohabitation with a prostitute (Judges 11:1) produces Jephthah, who, in typical Canaanite fashion offers his daughter as a sacrifice. Samson represents the ultimate embodiment of this problem. He marries a Philistine, and when this fails, he resorts to Philistine prostitutes (Judges 14:1 – 16:31). In the narrator’s mind this domestic pattern represents further evidence of Israel’s failure."1
6 And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.