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And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead."

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highlighted Judges 15:1 ESV

After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.

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highlighted Judges 14:20 ESV

And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

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And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "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 found out my riddle."

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highlighted Judges 14:17 ESV

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.

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highlighted Judges 14:16 ESV

And Samson's wife wept over him and said, "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"

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highlighted Judges 14:15 ESV

On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"

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highlighted Judges 14:14 ESV

And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And in three days they could not solve the riddle.

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highlighted Judges 14:12-13 ESV

And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it."

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highlighted Judges 14:11 ESV

As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

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highlighted Judges 14:10 ESV

His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.

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highlighted Judges 14:9 ESV

He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.

Sep 10

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highlighted Judges 14:8 ESV

After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

Sep 10

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highlighted Judges 14:7 ESV

Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes.

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highlighted Judges 14:5 ESV

Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.

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highlighted Judges 14:3 ESV

But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes."

Sep 10

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highlighted Judges 14:2 ESV

Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife."

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highlighted Judges 14:1 ESV

Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.

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highlighted Judges 13:23 ESV

But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."

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highlighted Judges 13:22 ESV

And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."

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