Jueces 15:2

2 Y el padre dijo: Realmente pensé que la odiabas intensamente y se la di a tu compañero. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Te ruego que la tomes en su lugar.

Jueces 15:2 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 15:2

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly
hated her
Not only thought so, but said so, and had said it over and over again; for the words are, "saying I said" ^F20, affirmed it confidently and constantly, that "in hating thou hast hated her" ^F21, 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 Leviticus 18:18 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 (ytrma rma) "dicendo dixi", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator.
F21 (htanv anv) "odiendo odires eam", Pagninus, Montanus; so Piscator.

Jueces 15:2 In-Context

1 Después de algún tiempo, en los días de la siega del trigo, sucedió que Sansón visitó a su mujer con un cabrito, y dijo: Llegaré a mi mujer en su recámara. Pero el padre de ella no lo dejó entrar.

2 Y el padre dijo: Realmente pensé que la odiabas intensamente y se la di a tu compañero. ¿No es su hermana menor más hermosa que ella? Te ruego que la tomes en su lugar.

3 Entonces Sansón le respondió: Esta vez no tendré culpa en cuanto a los filisteos cuando les haga daño.

4 Y Sansón fue y capturó trescientas zorras, tomó antorchas, juntó las zorras cola con cola y puso una antorcha en medio de cada dos colas.

5 Después de prender fuego a las antorchas, soltó las zorras en los sembrados de los filisteos, quemando la mies recogida, la mies en pie, y además las viñas y los olivares.