07:014:016 And Samson’s wife wept before him,
and said, Thou dost but
hate
me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle
unto
the
children of my people, and hast not told it me.
And he
said
unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor
my
mother,
and shall I tell it thee?
07:014:017 And she wept before him the seven days,
while their feast
lasted:
and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told
her,
because she lay sore upon him: and she told the
riddle to
the
children of her people.
07:014:018 And 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.
07:014:019 And the Spirit of the lord came upon
him, and he went down to
Ashkelon,
and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil,
and
gave change of garments unto them which expounded the
riddle.
And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his
father’s
house.
07:014:020 But Samson’s wife was given to his
companion, whom he had used
as
his friend.
07:015:001 But it came to pass within a while after,
in the time of wheat
harvest,
that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said,
I
will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her
father would
not
suffer him to go in.
07:015:002 And her father said, I verily thought that
thou hadst utterly
hated
her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is
not her
younger
sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead
of
her.
07:015:003 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall
I be more blameless
than
the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
07:015:004 And Samson went and caught three hundred
foxes, and took
firebrands,
and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in
the
midst between two tails.
07:015:005 And when he had set the brands on fire,
he let them go into
the
standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both
the
shocks,
and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and
olives.
07:015:006 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done
this? And they
answered,
Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he
had
taken his wife, and given her to his companion.
And the
Philistines
came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
07:015:007 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have
done this, yet will
I
be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.


