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The Timnite father-in-law of Samson

Philistine citizen of Timnah who gave his daughter, Samson’s newly married bride, to Samson’s best man when Samson departed in anger; later killed along with his daughter by angered Philistines when Samson burned their standing grain.

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Judges 14:19-20; 15:1-6

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