Verse 16
Judges 14:16
World English Bible
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Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.”
He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תֵּבְךְּ֩ אֵ֨שֶׁת שִׁמְשׁ֜וֹן עָלָ֗י/ו וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ רַק שְׂנֵאתַ֨/נִי֙ וְ/לֹ֣א אֲהַבְתָּ֔/נִי הַֽ/חִידָ֥ה חַ֨דְתָּ֙ לִ/בְנֵ֣י עַמִּ֔/י וְ/לִ֖/י לֹ֣א הִגַּ֑דְתָּה וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לָ֗/הּ הִנֵּ֨ה לְ/אָבִ֧/י וּ/לְ/אִמִּ֛/י לֹ֥א הִגַּ֖דְתִּי וְ/לָ֥/ךְ אַגִּֽיד
English Translation
And Samson's wife wept before him and said, "You only hate me and do not love me; the riddle you posed to the children of my people, you have not told me." And he said to her, "Behold, to my father and my mother I have not told it, and to you I will tell it."
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Chapter 14 Context
1
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
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He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daug...
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3
Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or...
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4
But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against t...
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5
Then went Samson down with his father and his mother to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah;...
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6
Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had...
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7
He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
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8
After a while he returned to take her; and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold,...
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9
He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother, and gav...
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10
His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
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11
When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
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12
Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven day...
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but if you can’t declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes o...
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14
He said to them,
“Out of the eater came out food.
Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
They couldn...
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15
On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the...
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16
Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle...
17
She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, b...
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18
The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than h...
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19
Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, a...
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20
But Samson’s wife was given to his companion who had been his friend.
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