the story cont'd

the israelites fell to sinning AGAIN (unfortunately..) so they suffered from the philistines for 40 years. God spoke to a man named manoah, who had yet to become a father. God told manoah's wife that she'd bear a son that was to be a nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. the son was to also never cut his hair.
manoah's wife gave birth to a baby boy, and the boy was named samson. the boy grew up to be a strong man. God orchestrated for samson to run into a beautiful philistine woman. samson wanted to marry her. but God had planned this to happen so that samson would have a reason to confront the philistines, who were still ruling over the israelites.
samson and his father set out to meet the philistine woman. on their way, a lion ran towards samson. by God's spirit, samson tore the lion apart with his bare hands.
later, when samson looked at the lion's carcass, he saw that there was honey in it and bees were swarming around the carcass. samson took the honey from it and ate it. his father and samson hed a feast at the philistine woman's village. samson decided to tell a riddle to the young men of philistine. they bet 30 linen garments and clothes.
the philistine men weren't able to answer samson's riddle, so they threatened samson's wife (the philistine woman) into finding out the answer.