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.|
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.|
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.
18 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.|
19 The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.
14:18Before 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."
14:18And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What [is] sweeter than honey? and what [is] stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
14:18And they on the seventh day before the sun went down said to him: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle.
14:18And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.
14:18And 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?| And he said to them, |If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.|
14:18And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
14:18And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle.
14:18And the men of the city say to him on the seventh day, before the sun goeth in: — 'What is sweeter than honey? And what stronger than a lion?' And he saith to them: 'Unless ye had ploughed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.'
14:18And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion? and he said to them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle.