Judges 14:12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.

Cross References

Genesis 45:22

To each one of them he gave a set of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of garments.

1 Kings 10:1

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, (fame due to the name of the Lord), she came to test him with hard questions.

2 Kings 5:22

He replied, “Yes, but my master has sent me to say, ‘Two members of a company of prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim; please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.’ ”

2 Kings 5:5

And the king of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments.

2 Chronicles 7:8

At that time Solomon held the festival for seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.

Psalm 49:4

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the harp.

Proverbs 1:6

to understand a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Proverbs 31:24

She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchant with sashes.

Ezekiel 17:2

O mortal, propound a riddle, and speak an allegory to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Matthew 13:13

The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’

Matthew 13:34

Jesus told the crowds all these things in parables; without a parable he told them nothing.

Matthew 27:28

They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal;

Luke 14:7

When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.

John 16:29

His disciples said, “Yes, now you are speaking plainly, not in any figure of speech!

1 Corinthians 13:12

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

James 5:2

Your riches have rotted, and your clothes are moth-eaten.

Judges 14:11

When the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.

Judges 14:13

But if you cannot explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.” So they said to him, “Ask your riddle; let us hear it.”