15 On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, "Seduce your husband so he’ll tell us the answer to the riddle, or else we’ll set fire to you and your household. Were we invited here just to become poor?"
16 So Samson’s wife cried on his shoulder and said, "You hate me! You don’t love me! You told a riddle to my people but didn’t tell me the answer."He replied to her, "Look, I haven’t even told the answer to my father and mother. Why should I tell it to you?"
17 But she cried on his shoulder for the rest of the seven days of the feast. Finally, on the seventh day, he told her the answer, for she had nagged him. And she told her people the answer to the riddle.
18 So on the seventh day, before the sun set, the townspeople said to him,"What’s sweeter than honey?What’s stronger than a lion?"He replied to them,"If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,you wouldn’t have figured out my riddle!"
19 Then the Lord’s spirit rushed over him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty of their men, stripped them of their gear, and gave the sets of clothes to the ones who had told the answer to the riddle. In anger, he went back up to his father’s household.
20 And Samson’s wife married one of those who had been his companions.