מֵרֵעַ

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.

Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”

Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.

Then Abner was very angry about Ishbosheth’s words, and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to Saul’s house your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman!

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.