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When they got to Timnah, Samson talked to the woman, and he was sure that she was the one for him.

Later,[a] Samson returned to Timnah for the wedding. And when he came near the place where the lion had attacked, he left the road to see what was left of the lion. He was surprised to see that bees were living in the lion's skeleton, and that they had made some honey. He scooped up the honey in his hands and ate some of it as he walked along. When he got back to his parents, he gave them some of the honey, and they ate it too. But he didn't tell them he had found the honey in the skeleton of a lion.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 14.8 Later: Or “The following year.”
  2. 14.9 But he didn't tell them … skeleton of a lion: To eat anything that had touched a skeleton was against God's laws (see Leviticus 11.27-40).

Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.

Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion’s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

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