“Out of the eater came food; out of the strong came sweetness.” -Judges 14:14 So Samson lays out his riddle to his wedding guests. He tells them…“Out of the eater came food; out of the strong came sweetness”. Obviously this refers to the lion Samson tore apart and from whose body he took honey that […]

“Shimshon said to them, ‘Let me present you with a riddle. If you can solve it within the seven days of the banquet and tell me the solution, I will give you thirty linen shirts and thirty changes of good clothes.  But if you can’t solve it, you give me thirty linen shirts and thirty […]

“His father went down to the woman, and there Shimshon gave a banquet — this is what the young men used to do. When the P’lishtim saw him, they provided thirty companions to be with him.”-Judges 14:10-11 It’s WEDDING time! Except this was a  wedding that never should have been. In verse 10, we’re told the […]

“Awhile later, as he was returning to claim his bride, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion and saw that there was now a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.”-Judges 14:8 So Samson is walking back to Timnah to claim his gentile bride. And the same […]

“The Spirit of Adonai came powerfully upon Shimshon, and barehanded he tore the lion to pieces as easily as if it had been a young goat. But he didn’t tell his father or mother what he had done.  Then he went down and talked with the woman and found he still liked her.”-Judges 14:6-7 Since […]