15It happened on the seventh day, that 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? Is it not so?|


In Context

12 Samson said to them, |Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

13 but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.| They said to him, |Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.|

14 He said to them, |Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the strong came forth sweetness.| They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.

15 It happened on the seventh day, that 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? Is it not so?|

16 Samson's wife wept before him, and said, |You just hate me, and don't love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me.| He said to her, |Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?|

17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Judges 14:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:15On 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 rob us?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson’s wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father’s house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? [is it] not [so? ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:15And when the seventh day came, they said to the wife of Samson: Soothe thy husband, and persuade him to tell thee what the riddle meaneth. But if thou wilt not do it, we will burn thee, and thy father's house. Have you called us to the wedding on purpose to strip us?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to impoverish us? is it not'so ?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:15On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, |Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare unto us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to impoverish us? is it not so?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice thy husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take what we possess? is it not so?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:15And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson's wife, 'Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that 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 take that we have? is it not so?