The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time.

The leaders of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

Samson continued on down to Timnah and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one.

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said, “Yes.”

When he got home, he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”

Now the temple was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye.

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

Gilead’s wife also gave him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, because you are another woman’s son.”

They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

The Lord’s messenger told Manoah, “Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her.

Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”

Manoah’s wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the Lord empowered him.