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God's Sovereign Plan
All commentators agree that this verse reveals God's sovereignty. Though Samson's parents were rightly concerned, they didn't know God was orchestrating events. Scholars explain that God was using Samson's desire for this marriage to create an "occasion" to confront the Philistines and begin Israel's deliverance, showing how God can work through even questionable human choices to achieve His greater plan.
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Albert Barnes
On Judges 14:4
18th Century
Theologian
His father and mother very properly opposed Samson’s marriage with a Pagan woman, the daughter of the oppressors of his people. But they could not …
Charles Ellicott
On Judges 14:4
19th Century
Bishop
That it was of the Lord. —All that can be meant is that in this marriage God was overruling the course of events to the furtheranc…
John Gill
On Judges 14:4
17th Century
Pastor
And his father and mother knew not that it was of the Lord ,
&c.] That he should marry this uncircumcised Philistine…
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Matthew Henry
On Judges 14:1–4
17th Century
Minister
As far as Samson's marriage was a common case, it was weak and foolish of him to set his affections on a daughter of the Philistines. Should one, n…