Samson went down to Timnah and at Timnah he saw a woman, one of the daughters of the Philistines.
His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for that was the customary thing for young men to do.
“Out of the eater came something to eat,
And out of the strong came something sweet.”
And they could not solve the riddle in three days.
Then on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to tell us [through you] the [answer to the] riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s household with fire. Have you invited us to make us poor? Is this not true?”
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.
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