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Gen. 38: 13 states that Tamar was told: “Your father-in-law is coming up to Timnah for the sheepshearing,” thus implying that Timnah was a high place.
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Their encounter on the way to Timnah was significant and decisive in the annals of the Israelite nation.
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According to another view, Samson did not sin with the woman from Timnah, for he took her for the purpose of matrimony.
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One of the views presented in the midrash is that Samson sinned when he married the Philistine woman from Timnah.
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Samson disgraced himself in Timnah, (since he went there in order to marry a Philistine woman), and therefore the Bible uses the language of descent, while Judah was exalted there (for being the forebear of kings; see below), and therefore the language of ascent is applied to him (BT Sotah 10a; Gen. Rabbah 85: 6).
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The Samson narrative, in contrast, states that “Samson went down to Timnah,” thus indicating that it was a low place.
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Both parents accompany Samson to Timnah in Judg 14: 5, but his mother is not included in v. 10.
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She disguised herself and waited for her father-in-law, Judah, on the road to Timnah, knowing that he would travel there to shear his sheep.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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She disguised herself and waited for her father-in-law, Judah, on the road to Timnah, knowing that he would travel there to shear his sheep.
Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007
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And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth
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