Judges 14:18
18On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer, ▼▼sn Plowed with my heifer. This statement emphasizes that the Philistines had utilized a source of information which should have been off-limits to them. Heifers were used in plowing (
Hos 10:11), but one typically used one’s own farm animals, not another man’s.
you would not have solved my riddle!”