Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 14:2

"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 to wife. —These arrangements were always left to parents, who paid the marriage dower (Genesis 34:4–12). (Nehemiah 10:30, etc.)