Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. 2He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
3Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
- Dt 28:48, Jo 11:20, Jg 13:1, Jg 15:11, 1Kg 12:15, 2Kg 6:33, 2Ch 10:15, 2Ch 22:7, 2Ch 25:20, Ps 115:3
- Jg 3:10, Jg 11:29, Jg 13:25, Jg 15:8, Jg 15:15, Jg 16:30, 1Sm 11:6, 1Sm 17:34-37, 1Sm 17:46, Is 42:2, Zc 4:6, Mt 11:29, 1Jn 3:8
- Gn 29:21, Mt 1:20
- 1Sm 14:25-30, Pr 25:15
- Gn 29:22, Es 1:7-22, Ec 10:19, Mt 22:2-4, Jn 2:9, Rv 19:9
- 1Sm 10:23, 1Sm 16:6, Mt 9:15, Jn 3:29
12Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
13but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
14He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle. 15On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
16Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
19Jehovah’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house. 20But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.