Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. 1Jn 2:16Jos 15:10Jos 19:43Psa 119:372Sa 11:2Gen 34:1-2Gen 38:12-13Gen 6:2 He 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.” Gen 34:4Gen 24:2-3Gen 21:212Ki 14:9Gen 38:6
Then 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?” 1Sa 17:36Deu 7:2-3Jdg 15:181Sa 14:61Sa 17:261Sa 31:42Sa 1:20Exo 34:12-16
Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel. Jos 11:20Psa 115:3Jdg 13:11Ki 12:152Ch 10:152Ch 22:72Ki 6:332Ch 25:20
Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him. The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done. Jdg 3:10Zec 4:6Jdg 13:251Jn 3:81Sa 11:61Sa 17:34-371Sa 17:46Isa 42:2 He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well. After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. Gen 29:21Mat 1:20 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body. 1Sa 14:25-30Pro 25:15 His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so. Ecc 10:19Est 1:7-22Gen 29:22Jhn 2:9Mat 22:2-4Rev 19:9 When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. Jhn 3:291Sa 10:231Sa 16:6Mat 9:15
Samson 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; 1Ki 10:1Ezk 17:2Gen 45:222Ki 5:222Ki 5:5Pro 1:61Co 13:12Ezk 20:49 but 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.”
He said to them, 1Ki 17:6Jas 1:2-41Pe 2:24Rom 8:372Co 12:9-10Mat 13:112Ch 20:22Ch 20:25
“Out of the eater came out food.
Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle. On 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?” Jdg 15:6Jdg 16:5Mic 7:5Gen 3:1-6Jdg 12:1Pro 1:11Pro 5:3Pro 6:26
Samson’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.” Jdg 16:15Gen 2:24
He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. Jdg 16:16Luk 18:4-5Gen 3:6Jdg 16:13Jdg 16:6Job 2:9Luk 11:8Pro 2:16-17 The 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.”
The LORD’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. 1Sa 11:6Jdg 3:10Jdg 13:25Jdg 14:6Jdg 15:14 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend. Jdg 15:2Jhn 3:29Jhn 13:18Jdg 15:6Jer 9:5Mat 26:49-50Mic 7:5Psa 55:12-13