1
And Sampson went down to Thamnatha, and saw a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Philistines.
2
And he went up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Thamnatha of the daughters of the Phylistines; and now take her to me for a wife.
3
And his father and his mother said to him, Are there no daughters of thy brethren, and a woman of all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Sampson said to his father, Take her for me, for she right in my eyes.
4
And his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord, that he sought to be revenged on the Philistines: and at that time the Philistines lorded it over Israel.
5
And Sampson and his father and his mother went down to Thamnatha, and he came to the vineyard of Thamnatha; and behold, a young lion roared in meeting him.
6
And the spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him, and he crushed him as he would have crushed a kid of the goats, and there was nothing in his hands: and he told not his father and his mother what he had done.
7
And they went down and spoke to the woman, and she was pleasing in the eyes of Sampson.
8
And after some time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees, and honey in the mouth of the lion.
9
And he took it into his hands, and went on eating, and he went to his father and his mother, and gave to them, and they did eat; but he told them not that he took the honey out of the mouth of the lion.
10
And his father went down to the woman, and Sampson made there a banquet for seven days, for so the young men are used to do.