And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:
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Gill's Exposition
And Samson said unto them,.... His thirty companions, very likely on the first day of the feast:
I will now put forth a riddle to you: a secret, hidden, abstruse thing, not easy to be understood; a…
Barnes' Notes
See the marginal references. Riddles formed one of the amusements of these protracted feasts. Sheets - Rather “linen shirts;” the “garments” which follow are the outward garments worn by the…
We have here an account of Samson's wedding feast and the occasion it gave him to fall foul upon the Philistines.
I. Samson conformed to the custom of the country in making a festival of his nuptial…
Cambridge Bible
a riddle This is the only specimen in the O.T. of a riddle in our sense (1Ki 10:1); elsewhere the word means a sententious maximPro 1:6, or a parableEze 17:2.
the seven days Cf. Gen 29:22; Gen 29:27,…
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