 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1860 - 316 pàgines
...told the men of her city. Then they came at the time fixed, before the sun went down, and answered, "What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?" Samson was angry, and reproached them with the unfair way in which they had found out his riddle, but... | |
 | 1861 - 108 pàgines
...friends, who, on the seventh day, surprised Samson by the following answer, which explained the riddle : "What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?" Samson was very angry at this, and said to the Philistines, "If ye had not ploughed with my heifer... | |
 | Joseph Reeve - 1862 - 616 pàgines
...immediately communicated to her countrymen. They hastened lo Sampson before the sun went down, and said, What' is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ? Sampson, by the direction of Almighty God, set off to Ascalon, where he slew thirty Philistines,... | |
 | Louis Alfred Du Pouget - 1863 - 140 pàgines
...Samson, at the close of the seventh and last day of the marriage feast, the longed for answer — viz : " What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?" The spiritual or evangelical meaning of which may be thus, though feebly, rendered : " Out of Satan,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1864 - 112 pàgines
...of it, told her about the lion and the honey. On the seventh day the young men gave the answer—" What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ?" Samson no sooner heard the answer than he suspected how they had found it out. He gave them the... | |
 | 1864 - 594 pàgines
...riddle, which, after a time, he does ; and she telling it to the children of her people, they respond, " What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?" And he said unto them, " If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." Beloved,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1864 - 138 pàgines
...told the Philistines. And before the sun went down on the seventh day, they went to Samson and said, " What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ?" So Samson knew that his wife had told them, and he was very angry. And he went down to Ashkelon... | |
 | Mrs. D. C. Weston - 1865 - 206 pàgines
...give the answer ? A. No : not till Samson's wife had told them. Q. What did they then reply ? A. " What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ?" (xiv. 18.V Q. How many of the Philistines did Samson slay with the jaw-bone of an ass, as recorded... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pàgines
...the strongest 18 And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion ? And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed, with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle. In a... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1867 - 708 pàgines
...it to the men of the city, so that before sunset on the seventh day they came to Samson and said, " What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?" " If ye had not ploughed with my heifer," rejoined Samson, " ye had not found out my riddle." The spirit... | |
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And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion... 
