Verse 12

Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 17:2 : 2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
  • Gen 45:22 : 22 He gave each one of them changes of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.
  • 1 Kgs 10:1 : 1 When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
  • 2 Kgs 5:5 : 5 The king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
  • 2 Kgs 5:22 : 22 He said, "All is well. My master has sent me, saying, 'Behold, even now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'"
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
  • Gen 29:27-28 : 27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years." 28 Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as 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 to the brook of Egypt.
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
  • Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
  • Matt 13:13 : 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.
  • Matt 13:34 : 34 Jesus spoke all these things in parables to the multitudes; and without a parable, he didn't speak to them,
  • Matt 27:28 : 28 They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
  • Mark 14:51-52 : 51 A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him, 52 but he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.
  • Luke 14:7 : 7 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,
  • John 16:29 : 29 His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.