Samson’s Marriage

14 Once Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw a Philistine woman.

⁴³ Elon, Timnah, Ekron,

¹⁰ and the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh, and passes along by Timnah;^(A)

¹⁶ for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.

² It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.^(A)

¹² In course of time the wife of Judah, Shua’s daughter, died; when Judah’s time of mourning was over,^[a] he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.^{(A) 13} When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

The Rape of Dinah

34 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the region.^{(A) 2} When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the region, saw her, he seized her and lay with her by force.

² the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.^(A)