Judges 14:15-17

Lexham English Bible

¹⁵ When it was the fourth^[a] day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?” ¹⁶ And Samson’s wife wept before him, and she said, “You must hate me; you do not love me. You told the riddle to my people,^[b] but you have not explained it to me.” He said to her, “I have not explained it to my father and mother. Why should I explain it to you?” ¹⁷ She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained it to her, and she told the riddle to her people.^[c]