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18 So the men of the city said to Samson on the seventh day before sundown,

“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”

And he said to them,

“If you had not plowed with [a]my heifer,
You would not have solved my riddle.”

19 Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon him mightily, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty of them and took their gear, and gave changes of clothes to those who had explained the riddle. And his anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house. 20 But Samson’s wife was given to his [b]companion who had been his friend.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 14:18 Samson was accusing them of forcing the answer out of his wife.
  2. Judges 14:20 I.e. the chief attendant at the wedding feast.

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