Judges 14:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 24:13

My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.

Proverbs 25:15

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break bones.

Judges 14:10

His father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, as the young men were accustomed to do.

Judges 14:8

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.

1 Samuel 10:16

Saul said to his uncle, “He told us that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingship, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.

1 Samuel 14:1

One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.