Judges 14:16

Modern English Version

So Samson’s wife wept all over him and said, “You must hate me. You do not love me. You have told a riddle to the young men and did not tell it to me.” Then he said to her, “Behold, I have not told it to my father and mother. Why should I tell it to you?”

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Judges 14:17

She wept on him for the seven days of the feast, then on the seventh day he told it to her because she had nagged him. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Judges 16:15

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me how your strength is so great.”

Judges 16:16

Every day she nagged him with her words and pleaded with him until he was tired to death.