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.
On the seventh day, just before sunset, the men of the city came to him and said, 'What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?' Then he said to them, 'If you hadn't used my wife to get the answer, you never would have solved my riddle.'
The writer is showing how Samson's wedding guests cheated by getting his wife to reveal the answer to his riddle, and Samson angrily calls them out for it.
📚 Historical Context
This takes place during Samson's seven-day wedding feast with his Philistine wife. Samson had posed a riddle about honey he found in a lion's carcass, wagering expensive clothes on whether the guests could solve it. The Philistine men threatened Samson's wife to make her get the answer from him.
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