Judges 14:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

After a while he returned to marry her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion and honey.

Cross References

Genesis 29:21

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”

Proverbs 25:16

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest, having too much, you vomit it up.

Matthew 1:20

But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Judges 14:7

Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson.

Judges 14:9

He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion.