A Riddle/ A Conundrum/A Puzzle

‘Out of the eater came something to eat,

Out of the strong came something sweet.  Judges 14:14.

The answer to this teaser was

What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?  Judges 14: 18.

In this scenario, the groom, Samson, was entertaining the wedding guests, but he gave them a puzzle they could not solve without threatening his Philistine bride with dire consequences.  Samson was going to Timnah to meet and take his bride when he stepped aside to look at the carcass of the lion he had killed with his bare hands. The Spirit of the Lord had rushed upon him and divinely empowered him to take on a ferocious lion and tear it apart. Now the carcass of the lion had a beehive and was humming with life, dripping honey.

Hidhah / Hard Questions.

Samson asked a hard question. The Hebrew word 'Hidhah' is translated as ‘hard questions’ that the Queen of Sheba asked King Solomon. Nothing was too hard for Solomon. He answered all her difficult questions. (1 Kings 10:1-3). Daniel, too, was a sharp interpreter of hard questions. (Daniel 5:11-12.)[1] Such a genre of writing is found in Proverbs (1:6; 30:15-31).  They teach and test while exposing evil. That was the purpose of Samson's hard question.

Yeshua Messiah was the best at answering hard questions.

No one could beat Yeshua, the Messiah, when it came to setting hard questions to his opponents to outwit them, like asking a question to answer the question put to Him. When the Temple authorities asked Yeshua where his authority came from, to trap him, Yeshua asked whether John’s baptism was from heaven or man. The chief priests and elders could not answer either way without losing face. They refused to answer Yeshua’s question, so neither did Yeshua enlighten them about the source of His authority because they would not believe him. (Matt 21:23-27)

Yeshua spoke in parables to hide the truth from those who rejected Him, while revealing it to those who believed in Him and his word. (Matt 13:10-11). Those who didn’t understand were hard-hearted because of their unbelief. (Isaiah 6:10).

Ask and it shall be given to you.

Searching for the truth, the answer, the treasure, is the duty of man. It is through asking, seeking, and knocking on doors that we arrive upon the revelation of what the Spirit has to say to us. 

[1] https://biblehub.com/q/what_riddles_are_found_in_the_bible.html