Judges ch 14 vrs.14 say " from the eater shall come forth food and from the strong shall come sweetness" what is the meaning of that riddle?
2007-03-20 03:26:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
HIS RIDDLE.
Samson's riddle related to honey in the lion's carcass. The prize he offered was thirty sindinim, or shirts, and thirty changes of garments, probably woolen.
Samson's riddle literally meant no more than that he had got honey, for food and for pleasure, from the lion, which in its strength and fury was ready to devour him.
Samson's companions obliged his wife to get the explanation from him. A worldly wife, or a worldly friend, is to a godly man as an enemy in the camp, who will watch every opportunity to betray him.
No union can be comfortable or lasting, where secrets cannot be intrusted, without danger of being divulged.
2007-03-20 05:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Book of Answers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Samson's riddle, on the surface, was a mild pleasantry,
hardly worth investing with the dignity of enigma; it has even
been questioned, whether it was a fair problem, considering that it was based upon one particular if not unique incident known to himself. He killed a young lion, and threw the carcase into a wood; in passing that way some time after, he turned aside to look at it, and found that a swarm of bees had built their combs inside the ribs. (This is the natural reading, which is adopted by Josephus in his paraphrase.) He ate some of the honey, and gave some of it to his father and mother; but, for some deep reason, he abstained from telling his parents that the honey had been taken from inside the skeleton of a lion. At his wedding feast some time after, he propounded a certain riddle to the thirty
young men of Timnath, who were the wedding guests, and laid a wager that they would not guess the answer within a week.
2007-03-20 10:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by crazyBaby69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like Samson's words. It was at his wedding he posed this riddle (if I remember correctly) to the philistines.
If I got the occasion wrong - sorry.
The eater is the lion he killed, the food coming forth was the honey and honeycomb from the bees that had taken dwelling in the dead body of the lion. You can see what the rest is now, I am sure.
But you must know this if you read this account.
2007-03-20 11:19:56 · answer #3 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jud 14:10-14
At Timnah, a great wedding feast was arranged, and Samson gave a riddle, offering each of his thirty companions a complete outfit if they could explain it. If not, they would have to give him thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.
The riddle was:
Out of the eater came something to eat,
And out of the strong came something sweet.
It referred, of course, to his killing of the lion and to his finding the honey in its carcass.
2007-03-20 11:25:14 · answer #4 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My friend all you have to do is read the rest of the event. Samson's bride nagged him until he told the meaning of it. He merely took a personal event where God helped him and made it into a riddle. You must read ALL of chapter 14 to understand. May the Lord bless and keep you. May He let the light of His face shine upon you.
God's and your beast of burden
Father john
2007-03-20 10:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by som 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How can you not know that? The eater is the lion and sweet food is the honey.Samson killed a lion and bees made a nest in it's skeleton.
2007-03-20 10:31:33 · answer #6 · answered by AngelsFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It probably means a priest along the way wrote it and it doesnt make much sense and it can twist my brain up into a pretzel trying to qualify it.
2007-03-20 10:30:32 · answer #7 · answered by larrydoyle52 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
honey...lion
2007-03-20 10:30:44 · answer #8 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋