¹⁸ And the Philistines, forcing their way into the towns of the lowlands and the south of Judah, had taken Beth-shemesh and Aijalon and Gederoth and Soco, with their daughter-towns, as well as Timnah and Gimzo and their daughter-towns, and were living there.

⁵⁷ Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.

²⁷ Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.

¹⁰ Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:

⁴¹ And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places.

⁴⁸ And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;

¹ Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;

⁹ If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.

¹⁰ And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.