Shìshījì 14:12

12 CānSūn duì tāmen shuō , wǒ gĕi nǐmen chū yī gè míyǔ , nǐmen zaì qī rì yán yàn zhī neì , ruòo néng cāi chū yìsi gàosu wǒ , wǒ jiù gĕi nǐmen sān shí jiàn lǐ yī , sān shí tào yīshang .

Shìshījì 14:12 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 14:12

And Samson said unto them
His thirty companions, very likely on the first day of the feast:

I will now put forth a riddle to you:
a secret, hidden, abstruse thing, not easy to be understood; a dark saying, wrapped up in figurative terms; and this he proposed as an amusement to them, to exercise their wits, which it seems was usual to entertain guests with, and might be both pleasing and profitable:

if you can certainly declare it unto me within the seven days of the
feast;
for so long the nuptial feast was usually kept, see ( Genesis 29:27 Genesis 29:28 ) . If they could find it out; and with clearness and certainty explain the riddle to him within that period of time, which was giving them time enough to do it in:

then I will give you thirty sheets, and thirty change of garments:
that is, every man one of each. By "sheets" he means, as Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it, a covering of the body in the night next to the flesh, in which a man lies, and was made of linen; meaning either what we call shirts, or bed sheet, and by change of raiment, a suit of clothes worn in the daytime.

Shìshījì 14:12 In-Context

10 Tā fùqin xià qù jiàn nǚzi . CānSūn zaì nàli shè bǎi yán yàn , yīnwei xiàng lái shàonián rén dōu yǒu zhège guīju .

11 Zhòngrén kànjian CānSūn , jiù qǐng le sān shí gèrén péibàn tā .

12 CānSūn duì tāmen shuō , wǒ gĕi nǐmen chū yī gè míyǔ , nǐmen zaì qī rì yán yàn zhī neì , ruòo néng cāi chū yìsi gàosu wǒ , wǒ jiù gĕi nǐmen sān shí jiàn lǐ yī , sān shí tào yīshang .

13 Nǐmen ruò bùnéng cāi chū yìsi gàosu wǒ , nǐmen jiù gĕi wǒ sān shí jiàn lǐ yī , sān shí tào yīshang . tāmen shuō , qǐng jiāng míyǔ shuō gĕi wǒmen tīng .

14 CānSūn duì tāmen shuō , chī de cōng chī zhĕ chūlai . tián de cōng jiàng zhĕ chūlai . tāmen sān rì bùnéng cāi chū míyǔ de yìsi .