Judges 14:16

Easy To Read Version

So Samson’s wife went to him and began crying. She said, “You just hate me! You don’t really love me! You told my people a riddle, and you won’t tell me the answer.”

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. This way, two people become one.

Judges 14:17

Samson’s wife cried for the rest of the seven days of the party. So he finally gave her the answer to the riddle on the seventh day. He told her because she kept bothering him. Then she went to her people and told them the answer to the riddle.

Judges 16:15

Then Delilah said to Samson, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you don’t even trust me? You refuse to tell me your secret. This is the third time you made me look foolish. You haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.”

Judges 16:16

She kept bothering Samson day after day. He got so tired of her asking him about his secret that he felt like he was going to die.