0 What did Samson find in the carcass of a lion?

What did Samson find in the carcass of a lion?


Honey

And he went down, and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion. Judges 14:6-9

("The swarm of bees in the lion's carcass ... were nothing but so-called drone flies, Eristalis tenax, hoverflies disguised as bees. It was these drone flies that Samson saw." The Fly Trap, Fredrik Sjoberg, p.114.)

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