Of the uncircumcised Philistines. — This on the lips of Israelites was a term of peculiar hatred (1 Samuel 17:36). How repugnant such a marriage would be in the eyes of Manoah and his wife we may see from the story of Simeon, Levi, and the Shechemites (Gen. xxxiv).
She pleaseth me well. — Literally, she is right in my eyes (Judges 14:7; 1 Kings 9:12).