3 But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters ^uof your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the ^vuncircumcised 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 ^wfrom the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. ^xAt that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.