Judges 14:17 meaning and explanation

She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

Judges 14:17, Berean Standard Bible

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Samson's wife is a Philistine woman of Timnah, and the thirty men at the wedding feast have threatened to burn her and her father's household if she does not learn the riddle's answer (verse 15). Her seven days of weeping are not simply wounded feeling; her life is at stake.

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