Samson, a Nazirite judge of Israel endowed with extraordinary strength, encounters a Philistine woman in Timnah and insists on marrying her, despite his parents' objections to intermarriage with the uncircumcised Philistines. This choice aligns with a divine plan to provoke confrontation with Israel's oppressors, as noted in the text: "his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.