When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.

Samson’s bride was then given to his best man.

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

Her father said, “I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him – he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” They were told, “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite took Samson’s bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father.

These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today!