‘I was sure you hated her,’ her father said, ‘so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she is? Why not take her instead? ’
So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, ‘You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.’ ‘Look,’ he said, ‘I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you? ’
So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.