Judges 14:5

Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath,.... They were prevailed upon to go with him, either because they perceived his affections were so strongly set upon a wife, that they…

Here, I. Samson, under the extraordinary guidance of Providence, seeks an occasion of quarrelling with the Philistines, by joining in affinity with them - a strange method, but the truth is Samson was…

and his father and his mother A later addition made for the purpose of conforming Samson's marriage to the ordinary type, in which the preliminaries were arranged by the parents. The encounter with…