1And Samson went down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines.2And he went up and told his father and his mother, and he said, "A woman I saw in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines, and now take her for me for a wife."3And his father and his mother said to him, "Is there no woman among the daughters of your brothers and among all my kinsmen, that you are going to take a wife from the Philistines, the uncircumcised?" And Samson said to his father, "Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes."4And his father and his mother did not know that from the LORD she was, for he was seeking an opportunity from the Philistines, and at that time the Philistines were ruling in Israel.5And Samson and his father and his mother went down to Timnah, and they came as far as the vineyards of Timnah, and behold, a young lion came roaring to meet him.6And the spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he tore him apart as one tears apart a kid, and there was nothing in his hand, and he did not tell his father and his mother what he had done.7And he went down and spoke to the woman, and she was right in the eyes of Samson.8And he returned after some days to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.9And he scraped it into his palms, and he went on going and eating, and he went to his father and to his mother, and he gave to them, and they ate, and he did not tell them that from the body of the lion he had scraped the honey.10And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men do.11And it was when they saw him, and they took thirty companions, and they were with him.12And Samson said to them, "Let me riddle a riddle to you; if you tell it to me during the seven days of the feast and find it, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of garments."13And if you are not able to tell it to me, then you shall give to me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of garments. And they said to him, "Riddle your riddle, and we will hear it."14And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet." And they were not able to tell the riddle for three days.15And it was on the seventh day, and they said to the wife of Samson, "Entice your husband and let him tell us the riddle, lest we burn you and the house of your father with fire; have you invited us to impoverish us?"16And the wife of Samson wept upon him and said, "You only hate me and do not love me; you have riddled the riddle to the sons of my people, and you have not told it to me." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told it to my father and to my mother, and shall I tell it to you?"17And she wept upon him the seven days that the feast lasted for them, and it was on the seventh day, and he told her, for she pressed him, and she told the riddle to the sons of her people.18And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun set, "What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found my riddle."19And the spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and he struck thirty men of them, and he took their spoil, and he gave the changes of garments to those who had told the riddle, and his anger burned, and he went up to the house of his father.20And the wife of Samson became his companion's, who had befriended him.