from wikipedia ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson


When he becomes a young adult, Samson leaves the hills of his people to see
the cities of the Philistines. While there, Samson falls in love with a
Philistine woman from Timnah that, overcoming the objections of his parents
who do not know that "it is of the Lord", he decides to marry. The intended
marriage is actually part of God's plan to strike at the Philistines. On the
way to ask for the woman's hand in marriage, Samson is attacked by
an Asiatic Lion and simply grabs it and rips it apart, as the spirit of God
moves upon him, divinely empowering him. This so profoundly affects Samson
that he just keeps it to himself as a secret. He continues on to the
Philistine's house, winning her hand in marriage. On his way to the wedding,
*Samson notices that bees have nested in the carcass of the lion and have
made honey. He eats a handful of the honey and gives some to his parents.* At
the wedding-feast, Samson proposes that he tell a riddle to his thirty
groomsmen (all Philistines); if they can solve it, he will give them thirty
pieces of fine linen and garments. The riddle ("Out of the eater, something
to eat; out of the strong, something sweet") is a veiled account of his
second encounter with the lion (at which only he was present). The
Philistines are infuriated by the riddle. The thirty groomsmen tell Samson's
new wife that they will burn her and her father's household if she does not
discover the answer to the riddle and tell it to them. At the urgent and
tearful imploring of his bride, Samson tells her the solution, and she tells
it to the thirty groomsmen.


"What is sweeter than honey? Before sunset on the seventh day they said to
him, and what is stronger than a lion?"

Samson said to them,  "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not
have solved my riddle."

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