Verse 18
18. Men of the city The thirty companions mentioned in Judges 14:11.
Before the sun went down Just in time to save themselves the mulct.
What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?
They answer thus sententiously, and by a distich similar to that in which he propounded the riddle. It was not necessary that they utter particulars, but only say so much as to assure him that they knew his riddle. Their triumph had been gained at such pains that they seem to have sought to make their answer poignant, in order to irritate Samson.
Ploughed with my heifer A proverbial expression implying the illegal use of that which was not their own. The expression was, indeed, not a delicate or chaste one, but does not charge, as some have thought, lewd and criminal intercourse between Samson’s wife and his thirty companions.
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