1 Samson traveled down to Timnah. While he was in Timnah, a Philistine woman caught his eye.
2 He went back home and told his father and mother, "A Philistine woman in Timnah caught my eye; now get her for me as a wife!"
3 But his father and mother replied to him, "Is there no woman among your own relatives or among all our people that you have to go get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?"Yet Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, because she’s the one I want!"
4 His father and mother didn’t know that the Lord was behind this. He was looking for an opening with the Philistines, because they were ruling over Israel at that time.
5 Then Samson traveled down to Timnah with his father and mother. When he came to the vineyards in Timnah, suddenly a lone young lion came roaring to meet him.