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Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn`t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.
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A Dishonest 'Solution'
Commentators explain that the father's excuse—that he thought Samson had abandoned his wife—was a self-serving justification. His attempt to fix the situation by offering the younger sister was not only to appease a feared Samson but also an attempt to keep the original dowry he had wrongly appropriated.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I gave her - In marriage. Samson had probably not heard of this before. Samson’s father had paid the dowry for the older sister; her father…
19th Century
Anglican
Verily thought ... utterly hated. —In the emphatic simplicity of the Hebrew style it is, Saying I said that hating, you hate h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And her father said, I verily thought that you had utterly hated her Not only thought…
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