 | Abraham Mills - Jews - 1879 - 482 pages
...one of the company, in behalf of himself and his associates, gave, as the solution to the riddle : " What is sweeter than honey ? and what is stronger than a lion?" Indignant at the manner in which he had been overreached, Samson immediately replied, "If ye had not... | |
 | Walter John B. Richards - 1880 - 534 pages
...came forth sweetness." then came to Samson, before the sunset of the seventh day, and answered — " What is sweeter than honey, And what is stronger than a lion ? " To this Samson answered, " If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle."... | |
 | 1881 - 588 pages
...revealed it. " 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.""... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1881 - 90 pages
...had found the honey." The maiden at once told the young men ; and they came to Samson and ,said : " What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ? " Samson was so enraged at the treachery they had practised upon him that he went away in his anger... | |
 | 1882 - 646 pages
...children of her people. 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. And the... | |
 | Charles Foster (writer on the Bible.) - 1882 - 788 pages
...just before the end of the feast, and pretended they had themselves found out his riddle. They said, What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ' But Samson knew that his wife had told them. And now the time was come when Samson should begin to... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - Religion - 1882 - 648 pages
...her people. " 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?'" Samson, upon hearing this, suspected how they managed to find out the answer, whereupon he said unto... | |
 | Nicolas Fontaine - 1882 - 660 pages
...which she immediately communicated to her countrymen, who came to Samson that same evening, and said, " What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ?" Samson, by the direction of Almighty God, at once set off to Ascalon,* where he slew thirty Philistines,... | |
 | Louis Barnett Abrahams - Bible - 1882 - 274 pages
...Samson at last yielded. The woman told the Philistines, and on the seventh day they spake the answer, "What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion?" Samson replied, " If ye hail not ploughed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle." Going to... | |
 | W. Tidmarsh - 1882 - 218 pages
...what leaves it doubtful whether a person or a thing is referred to ; What went ye out for to see ? What is sweeter than honey, and what is stronger than a lion ? 73. The interrogative which is used in reference to some specified persons or things ; Which is the... | |
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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... 
