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JuecesCapítulo 14

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Samson went down to Timnah, and there he saw a woman, one of the Philistine daughters.
He came back up and told his father and mother, "I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the Philistine daughters. Now get her for me as my wife."
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there no woman among the daughters of your own kin or among all my people, that you must go and take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" Samson answered his father, "Get her for me, for she is the right one in my eyes."
His father and mother did not know that this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
So Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother. When they came to the vineyards of Timnah, a young lion came roaring toward him.
The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one tears apart a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion, and there in it was a swarm of bees and honey.
He scooped the honey into his hands and ate as he went along. When he came to his father and mother, he gave them some, and they ate it too; but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.
His father went down to the woman, and Samson gave a feast there, as the young men customarily did.
Samson said to them, "Let me put a riddle to you. If you can solve it and tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
But if you cannot tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes." "Tell us your riddle," they said. "Let us hear it."
So he said to them: "Out of the eater came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet." For three days they could not solve it.
On the seventh day they said to Samson's wife, "Coax your husband into explaining the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father's household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us? Is that not so?"
So Samson's wife wept before him and said, "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, but you have not told me the answer." "Look," he replied, "I have not told my own father or mother—why should I tell you?"
She wept before him all seven days of the feast, and on the seventh day he finally told her, because she kept pressing him. Then she told the riddle to her people.
Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him: "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 solved my riddle."
Then the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of their garments, and gave the clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he went up to his father's house.
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