The Ammonites’ king replied to the messengers of Jephthah, “It is because Israel took away my land when they came up from Egypt, from the [river] Arnon as far as the Jabbok and [east of] the Jordan; so now, return those lands peaceably.”

And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what shall be the boy’s manner of life, and his vocation?”

Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that when your words come true, we may honor you?”

Then on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to tell us [through you] the [answer to the] riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s household with fire. Have you invited us to make us poor? Is this not true?”