Num 12:8 With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
Judg 14:12 And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,
Judg 14:13 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”
Judg 14:14 And he said to them,“Out of the eater came something to eat.
Out of the strong came something sweet.”
And in three days they could not solve the riddle.
Out of the strong came something sweet.”
And in three days they could not solve the riddle.
Judg 14:15 On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”
Judg 14:16 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”
Judg 14:17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.
Judg 14:18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle.”
What is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle.”
Judg 14:19 And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.
1Ki 10:1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
2Ch 9:1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.
Psa 49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
Psa 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Pro 1:6 to understand a proverb and a saying,
the words of the wise and their riddles.
the words of the wise and their riddles.
Eze 17:2 “Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
Dan 8:23 And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
Hab 2:6 Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own—
for how long?—
and loads himself with pledges!”
for how long?—
and loads himself with pledges!”
Copyright information for
ESV