Judges 14:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸So on the seventh day, before the sun set, the townspeople said to him,

“What’s sweeter than honey?
What’s stronger than a lion?”

He replied to them,

“If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,
you wouldn’t have figured out my riddle!”

¹⁹Then the Lord’s spirit rushed over him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty of their men, stripped them of their gear, and gave the sets of clothes to the ones who had told the answer to the riddle. In anger, he went back up to his father’s household. ²⁰And Samson’s wife married one of those who had been his companions.

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