Judg 14:4

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it was of the Lord.

That is, God permitted it, that it might be a means of bringing about the deliverance of Israel.

Such marriages were forbidden to the Israelites, to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations.

Josh 11:20; 1Kgs 12:15; 2Kgs 6:33; 2Chr 10:15; 2Chr 22:7; 2Chr 25:20; Ps 115:3

had dominion.

Judg 13:1; Judg 15:11; Deut 28:48