SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:2
Y dijo el padre de ella: Me persuadí que tú la aborrecías, y la di a tu compañero. Mas su hermana menor, ¿no es más hermosa que ella? Tómala, pues, en su lugar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 15:2
Verse 2. Thou hadst utterly hated her] As he was conscious she had given him great cause so to do. Her younger sister] The father appears to have been perfectly sincere in this offer.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her , etc.] Not only thought so, but said so, and had said it over and over again; for the words are, “saying I said” f299 , affirmed it confidently and constantly, that “in hating thou hast hated her” f300 , with an implacable hatred, that there was no hope of any reconciliation: therefore I gave her to thy companion ; this he said to excuse his daughter, and soften his resentment, that it was not his daughter’s doing, but his, and that he had disposed of her not to anybody, but to a companion of Samson’s; and what follows seems to be said with the same view, for he might be in some fear of Samson, knowing him to be a man of spirit and strength: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her ; that is, to wife; and two things he observes to recommend her, her youth and beauty, in which she was preferable to her sister. Such incestuous marriages were common with the old Canaanites, and it seems still continued; but were condemned by the law of God, and not allowed an Israelite, which Samson knew full well, and therefore listened not to the proposal; (see Leviticus 18:3,18).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-8 - When there are differences between relations, let those be reckoned the wisest and best, who are most forward to forgive or forget, and mos willing to stoop and yield for the sake of peace. In the means whic Samson employed, we must look at the power of God supplying them, an making them successful, to mortify the pride and punish the wickednes of the Philistines. The Philistines threatened Samson's wife that the would burn her and her father's house. She, to save herself and oblig her countrymen, betrayed her husband; and the very thing that sh feared, and by sin sought to avoid, came upon her! She, and he father's house, were burnt with fire, and by her countrymen, whom sh thought to oblige by the wrong she did to her husband. The mischief we seek to escape by any unlawful practices, we often pull down upon ou own heads.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 אביה 1 אמר 559 אמרתי 559 כי 3588 שׂנא 8130 שׂנאתה 8130 ואתננה 5414 למרעך 4828 הלא 3808 אחתה 269 הקטנה 6996 טובה 2896 ממנה 4480 תהי 1961 נא 4994 לך תחתיה׃ 8478
