et."

But for six days they could not solve the riddle.

On the seventh day they said to Samson's wife, "Tease your husband until
he tells us the riddle, or else we will burn up you and your father's
house. Did you invite us here to make us poor?" So Samson's wife wept
before him and said, "You only hate me and do not love me at all! You
have told a riddle to my fellow countrymen and not told me what it is."
He said to her, "See, I have not told it to my father or my mother, and
shall I tell you?" So she wept before him as long as their feast lasted,
but on the seventh day he told her, because she kept asking him; and she
told the riddle to her fellow countrymen.

So the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun
went down, "What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a
lion?" And he said to them:

"If with my heifer you did not plough,
You had not solved my riddle now."

Then he was suddenly given divine strength, and he went down to Ashkelon
and killed thirty of their men and took the spoil from them and gave the
suits of clothes to those who had guessed the riddle. But he was very
angry and returned to his father's house. And his bride was given to his
comrade who had been his best man.

After a while, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his
wife with a kid as a present; but when he said, "Let me go into the
inner room to my wife," her father would not let him go in, but said, "I
thought that you must surely hate her, so I gave her to your best man.
Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her then, instead." But
Samson said to him, "This time I shall be justified if I do the
Philistines an injury." So he went and caught three hundred foxes,
turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between every pair of tails.
When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing
grain of the Philistines and burned up not only the shocks and the
standing grain, but the olive orchards as well.

Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" The reply was, "Samson,
the son-in-law of the Timnite, because that man took Samson's wife and
gave her to his best man." So the Philistines went up, and burnt her and
her father. Then Samson said to them, "If this is the way you do, I will
not stop until I have had my revenge on you!" So he fought fiercely and
killed many of them; then he went and stayed in a cavern in the cliff of
Etam.

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