He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.
"Mixed marriages were uniformly disastrous early (Genesis 26:34-35) and late (Nehemiah 13:27) in Israel’s history. Moreover, the Philistines were the one nation near Israel that did not practice circumcision of any kind. In Egypt, Moab, and elsewhere, circumcision was often associated with reaching puberty or with premarital rites; but at least it was circumcision." [Note: Wolf, p. 466.] 