9. He scraped the honey out into his hands and ate it as he walked along. Then he went to his father and mother and gave them some. They ate it, but Samson did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the dead body of a lion.
10. His father went to the woman's house, and Samson gave a banquet there. This was a custom among the young men.
11. When the Philistines saw him, they sent thirty young men to stay with him.
12-13. Samson said to them, “Let me ask you a riddle. I'll bet each one of you a piece of fine linen and a change of fine clothes that you can't tell me its meaning before the seven days of the wedding feast are over.”“Tell us your riddle,” they said. “Let's hear it.”
14. He said,“Out of the eater came something to eat;Out of the strong came something sweet.”Three days later they had still not solved the riddle.
15. On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, “Trick your husband into telling us what the riddle means. If you don't, we'll set fire to your father's house and burn you with it. You two invited us so that you could rob us, didn't you?”
16. So Samson's wife went to him in tears and said, “You don't love me! You just hate me! You asked my friends a riddle and didn't tell me what it means!”He said, “Look, I haven't even told my father and mother. Why should I tell you?”
17. She cried about it for the whole seven days of the feast. But on the seventh day he told her what the riddle meant, for she nagged him about it so much. Then she told the Philistines.