Judges 14:8–14

⁸After some time, when he returned to marry her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and there was a swarm of bees with honey in the carcass. ⁹He scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scooped the honey from the lion’s carcass.ⁱ

¹⁰His father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as young men were accustomed to do. ¹¹When the Philistines saw him, they brought thirty men to accompany him.

¹²“Let me tell you a riddle,”^j Samson said to them. “If you can explain it to me during the seven days of the feast and figure it out, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes. ¹³But if you can’t explain it to me, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.”

“Tell us your riddle,” they replied.^C “Let’s hear it.”

¹⁴So he said to them:

Out of the eater came something to eat,

and out of the strong came something sweet.

After three days, they were unable to explain the riddle.