Judges 14:2

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He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.

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The Twelve Tribes of IsraelCanaan divided among the twelve tribes of Israel after the conquest under Joshua.

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Timnah was a town in the Shephelah, near Israel’s border with Philistine territory, where Samson saw the Philistine woman he wished to marry. Ashkelon, a major Philistine coastal city farther southwest, later becomes the site where Samson struck down Philistines to obtain garments connected with his riddle.

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Judges 14:2 mentions Ashkelon and Timnah.