Verse 12

And Samson saith to them, `Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me `in' the seven days of the banquet, and have found `it' out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 17:2 : 2 `Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use a simile unto the house of Israel,
  • Gen 45:22 : 22 to all of them hath he given -- to each changes of garments, and to Benjamin he hath given three hundred silverlings, and five changes of garments;
  • 1 Kgs 10:1 : 1 And the queen of Sheba is hearing of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Jehovah, and cometh to try him with enigmas,
  • 2 Kgs 5:5 : 5 And the king of Aram saith, `Go thou, enter, and I send a letter unto the king of Israel;' and he goeth and taketh in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand `pieces' of gold, and ten changes of garments.
  • 2 Kgs 5:22 : 22 And he saith, `Peace; my lord hath sent me, saying, Lo, now, this, come unto me have two young men from the hill-country of Ephraim, of the sons of the prophets; give, I pray thee, to them, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.'
  • Prov 1:6 : 6 For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
  • Gen 29:27-28 : 27 fulfil the week of this one, and we give to thee also this one, for the service which thou dost serve with me yet seven other years.' 28 And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;
  • 2 Chr 7:8 : 8 And solomon maketh the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him -- a very great assembly -- from the entering in of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt.
  • Ps 49:4 : 4 I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:
  • Ezek 20:49 : 49 And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
  • Matt 6:19 : 19 `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
  • Matt 13:13 : 13 `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,
  • Matt 13:34 : 34 All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,
  • Matt 27:28 : 28 and having unclothed him, they put around him a crimson cloak,
  • Mark 14:51-52 : 51 and a certain young man was following him, having put a linen cloth about `his' naked body, and the young men lay hold on him, 52 and he, having left the linen cloth, did flee from them naked.
  • Luke 14:7 : 7 And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,
  • John 16:29 : 29 His disciples say to him, `Lo, now freely thou dost speak, and no similitude speakest thou;
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;
  • Jas 5:2 : 2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;