Judges 14:15-18
15On the fourth ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew seventh
day they said to Samson’s wife, b“Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, clest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” 16And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, d“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?” 17She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because eshe pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. 18And 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.”
Judges 15:6
6Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife fand given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and gburned her and her father with fire.Esther 2:7
7He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, hthe daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.Esther 2:15
15When the turn came for Esther ithe daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what jHegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.
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