Verse 12

And Samson said unto them, Let me now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can declare it unto me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment;

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 17:2 : 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;
  • Gen 45:22 : 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
  • 1 Kgs 10:1 : 1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, she came to prove him with hard questions.
  • 2 Kgs 5:5 : 5 And the king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [pieces] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
  • 2 Kgs 5:22 : 22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets; give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of raiment.
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
  • Gen 29:27-28 : 27 Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. 28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.
  • 2 Chr 7:8 : 8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt.
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
  • Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
  • Matt 13:13 : 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
  • Matt 13:34 : 34 All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:
  • Matt 27:28 : 28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
  • Mark 14:51-52 : 51 And a certain young man followed with him, having a linen cloth cast about him, over [his] naked [body] : and they lay hold on him; 52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled naked.
  • Luke 14:7 : 7 And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them,
  • John 16:29 : 29 His disciples say, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark saying.
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.