WITH SAMSON’S BELATED RETURN (Judg 15:1),65 the plot thickens. He suddenly shows up in Timnah with a young goat,66 assuming that nothing has changed. His father-in-law stops him at the door (literally) and proposes a new arrangement, his younger daughter, who is more attractive than her older sister (v. 2). “For someone who operates according to ‘what seems right in his eyes,’ this offer should have been appealing.”67 But Boling aptly observes that no one can tell Samson how to find a wife.68 Even though he left the wedding in a rage, this does not seem to Samson to be a good reason to give
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