20; 2 &
5
20 And Samson’s wife was given to
one of his
companions
who had attended him at the
feast. (2)
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17 She
cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.
(8)
18 Before sunset on
the seventh day the men of the
town said to him, “What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?” Samson said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not
have solved my riddle.”
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8 Some
time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. (8)
9 He scooped out the honey with his hands and
ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they
too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
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12 “Let
me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can give me the answer
within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty
sets of clothes. (3)
13 If you can’t tell me
the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.”
“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let’s hear it.”
14 He replied, “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something
sweet.” For three days they could
not give the answer.
15 On the fourth day, they said to
Samson’s wife, “Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will
burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal
our property?”
16 Then Samson’s wife
threw herself on him, sobbing, “You hate me! You don’t really love me. You’ve
given my people a riddle, but you haven’t told me the answer.” “I haven’t even explained it to my father or
mother,”
he replied, “so why should I explain it to you?”
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3 His
father and mother replied, “Isn’t there an acceptable woman among your
relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines
to get a wife?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s
the right one for me.” (3)
4 (His parents did not
know that this was
from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to
confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)
5 Samson went down to
Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of
Timnah, suddenly a young
lion came roaring toward him.
6 The Spirit of the Lord
came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart
with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his
father nor his mother what he had done.
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19 Then
the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.
He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their
clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning
with anger, he returned to his
father’s home. (1)
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10 Now
his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was
customary for young men.
(1)
11 When the people saw
him, they chose thirty men to be his
companions.
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14 Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine
woman.
(1)
2 When he returned,
he said to his father and mother, “I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah;
now get her for me as my wife.”
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