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March 27 - A Calling Worth Guarding · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today, March 27th.
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  Patience and purpose. Waiting can feel frustrating,
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  especially when you want clarity now, progress now, answers now,
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  and change now. We live in a world built around
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  instant results, instant reactions, and instant access.
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  So when God asks us to wait, it can feel uncomfortable.
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  It can even feel like nothing is happening.
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  But waiting with God is never wasted.
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  He is always working, even in the seasons that seem slow.
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  Proverbs chapter 13 verse 4 says the soul of the sluggard craves
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  and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly
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  supplied. That verse reminds us that
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  craving something is not the same as preparing for it.
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  Wanting growth is not the same as pursuing it faithfully.
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  God often blesses diligence, patience, and steady obedience
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  more than rushed desire. Then in Judges chapter 13, an
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  Angel appears and speaks, a promise over Samson's future
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  before his story fully unfolds. Long before the public moments,
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  there was quiet preparation. Long before the victories and
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  failures, there was purpose. God was already at work.
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  And then in Judges chapter 14 we start to see how choices affect
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  calling. Samson was set apart for
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  purpose, but that did not remove the need for wisdom.
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  That is a good reminder for us. Having potential is not enough.
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  Purpose still requires character.
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  Calling still requires obedience.
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  God may have plans for your life, but the decisions you make
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  along the way matter deeply. Maybe you are in a season where
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  you feel delayed. You are praying, trying,
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  waiting, hoping and wondering why things are not moving
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  faster. But God may be doing deeper work
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  in you before He does visible work through you.
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  He may be building patience, discipline, humility, or wisdom.
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  He may be teaching you to trust Him more than your timeline.
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  Waiting is not weakness. Waiting can be worshipped when
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  it is done with trust. And patience is not passive, it
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  is act of faith. It keeps showing up, It keeps
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  obeying. It keeps growing roots even when
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  fruit is not visible yet. So do not despise the slower
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  season. Keep being diligent.
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  Keep choosing what is right. Keep trusting that God knows how
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  to prepare you for what He has prepared for you.
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  His purpose is not lost just because the process feels long.
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  Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank You that
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  You are working even when I cannot see the full picture.
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  Help me to trust Your timing and not give in to impatience or
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  frustration. Teach me to be diligent,
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  faithful, and wise while I wait. Prepare my heart for the purpose
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  you have for my life and help me make choices that align with
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  your will each day. In Jesus name, Amen.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs chapter 13 verses 3 to
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  4 World English Bible. He who guards his mouth, guards
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  his soul. One who opens wide his lips
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  comes to ruin. The soul of the sluggard
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  desires, and has nothing but the desire of the diligent shall be
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  fully satisfied. Judges, Chapters 13 to 14.
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  World English Bible. The children of Israel again did
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  that which was evil in Yahweh's sight, and Yahweh delivered them
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  into the hand of the Philistines. 40 years.
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  There was a certain man of Zora, of the family of the Danites,
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  whose name was Mano, and his wife was barren and childless.
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  Yahweh's Angel appeared to the woman and said to her, See now
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  you are barren and childless, but you shall conceive and bear
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  a son. Now therefore please beware and
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  drink no wine nor strong drink, and don't eat any unclean thing,
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  for behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son.
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  No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a
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  Nazarite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel
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  out of the hand of the Philistines.
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  Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God
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  came to me, and his face was like the face of the Angel of
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  God, very awesome. I didn't ask him where he was
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  from, neither did he tell me his name.
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  But he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son.
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  And now drink no wine, nor strong drink.
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  Don't eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazarite to
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  God from the womb to the day of his death.
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  Then Mano entreated Yahweh and said, O Lord, please let the man
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  of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we
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  should do to the child who shall be born.
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  God listened to the voice of Mano, and the Angel of God came
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  again to the woman as she sat in the field.
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  But Mano, her husband, wasn't with her.
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  The woman hurried and ran and told her husband, saying to him,
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  Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me.
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  Mano arose and followed his wife and came to the man and said to
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  him, Are you the man who spoke to my wife?
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  He said, I am. Mano said, now let your words
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  happen. What shall the child's way of
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  life and mission be? Yahweh's Angel said to Mano of
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  all that I said to the woman, Let her beware, she may not eat
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  of anything that comes of the vine.
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  Neither let her drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean
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  thing. Let her observe all that I
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  commanded her. Mano said to Yahweh's Angel,
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  Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.
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  Yahweh's Angel said to Mano, though you detain me, I won't
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  eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt
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  offering, you must offer it to Yahweh, for Mano didn't know
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  that he was Yahweh's Angel. Mano said to Yahweh's Angel,
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  What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor
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  you. Yahweh's Angel said to him, Why
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  do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?
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  So Mano took the young goat with the meal offering and offered it
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  on the rock to Yahweh. Then the Angel did an amazing
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  thing as Mano and his wife watched.
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  For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the
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  altar, Yahweh's Angel ascended in the flame of the altar.
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  Mano and his wife watched, and they fell on their faces to the
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  ground. But Yahweh's Angel didn't appear
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  to Mano or to his wife anymore. Then Mano knew that he was
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  Yahweh's Angel. Mano said to his wife, We shall
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  surely die because we have seen God.
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  But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us,
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  he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal
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  offering at our hand, and he wouldn't have shown us all these
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  things, nor would he have told us such things as these.
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  At this time the woman bore a son and named him Samson.
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  The child grew and Yahweh blessed him.
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  Yahweh's Spirit began to move him in Mahine Dan between Zora
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  and Eshtal. Samson went down to Timna and
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  saw a woman in Timna of the daughters of the Philistines.
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  He came up and told his father and his mother, saying, I have
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  seen a woman in Timna of the daughters of the Philistines,
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  now therefore get her for me as my wife.
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  Then his father and his mother said to him, Isn't there a woman
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  among your brother's daughters or among all my people, that you
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  go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?
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  Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me
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  well. But his father and his mother
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  didn't know that it was of Yahweh, for he sought an
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  occasion against the Philistines.
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  Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
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  Then Samson went down to Timna with his father and his mother,
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  and came to the vineyards of Timna.
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  And behold, a young lion roared at him.
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  Yahweh's Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would
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  have torn a young goat with his bare hands.
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  But he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.
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  He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson
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  well. After a while he returned to
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  take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion, and
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  behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion and
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  honey. He took it into his hands and
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  went on eating as he went. He came to his father and mother
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  and gave to them and they ate, but he didn't tell them that he
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  had taken the honey out of the lion's body.
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  His father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast
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  there, for the young men used to do so.
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  When they saw him. They brought 30 companions to be
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  with him. Samson said to them, Let me tell
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  you a Riddle. Now, if you can tell me the
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  answer within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then
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  I will give you 30 linen garments and 30 changes of
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  clothing. But if you can't tell me the
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  answer, then you shall give me 30 linen garments and 30 changes
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  of clothing. They said to him, Tell us your
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  Riddle, that we may hear it. He said to them, Out of the
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  eater came out food, out of the strong came out sweetness.
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  They couldn't in three days declare the Riddle.
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  On the 7th day, they said to Samson's wife, Entice your
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  husband that he may declare to us the Riddle, lest we burn you
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  and your father's house with fire.
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  Have you called us to impoverish us?
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  Isn't that so? Samson's wife wept before him
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  and said, you just hate me and don't love me.
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  You've told a Riddle to the children of my people and
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  haven't told it to me, he said to her.
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  Behold, I haven't told my father or my mother, so why should I
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  tell you? She wept before him the seven
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  days while their feast lasted, and on the 7th day he told her
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  because she pressed him severely, and she told the
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  Riddle to the children of her people.
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  The men of the city said to him on the 7th day before the sun
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  went down. What is sweeter than honey?
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  What is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't
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  plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my
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  Riddle. Yahweh's spirit came mightily on
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  him, and he went down to Ashkellen and struck 30 men of
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  them. He took their plunder, then gave
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  the changes of clothing to those who declared the Riddle.
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  His anger burned and he went up to his father's house, but
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  Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his
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