Judg 14:1-5, 7-8 | ESV | STEP | Samson went down to Timnah , and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines .

Judges 14:1-5

Samson’s Marriage

1 ^aSamson went down to ^bTimnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. ^cNow get her for me as my wife.” 3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters ^dof your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the ^euncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”

4 His father and mother did not know that it was ^ffrom the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. ^gAt that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.

5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.

Judges 14:7-8

7 Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson’s eyes.

8 After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.