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Judges 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. Joshua 11:20; 1 Kings 12:15; 2 Kings 6:33; 2 Chronicles 10:15, 2 Chronicles 22:7, 2 Chronicles 25:20; Psalms 115:3

had dominion: Judges 13:1, Judges 15:11; Deuteronomy 28:48

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