Shoftim Perek 14

• The Plishtim ruled over Israel.

• Shimshon told his parents that he would like to marry a non-Jewish Plishti woman.

• His parents were unhappy about this decision.

• En route to see the woman, Shimshon tore a lion apart with his bare hands.

• Shimshon met his future wife and returned home.

• Upon returning for the wedding, Shimshon found the carcass of the lion that he had previously torn apart, with a beehive full of honey in it.

• Shimshon ate from the honey.

• At the wedding, Shimshon’s new father in-law gave Shimshon an additional thirty men to contribute to the celebration.

• Shimshon posed a riddle to them, as a contest to destroy the Plishtim.

• The Plishtim threatened to kill Shimshon’s wife if she didn’t find out the answer to the riddle for them.

• Shimshon’s wife manipulated Shimshon to learn the answer.

• The answer was revealed.

• Shimshon paid his debt to the Plishtim in a fit of rage.

• Shimshon returned home, and his wife went to live with another man.