Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife." — Judges 14:2 (ASV)
Get her for me - namely, by paying the requisite dowry (see marginal references) and gifts to relations. Therefore, the frequent mention of parents taking wives for their sons (Exodus 34:16; Nehemiah 10:30), because the parents of the bridegroom conducted the negotiation, and paid the dowry to the parents of the bride.