He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
Bees normally do not inhabit cadavers; flies and maggots do. This unusual situation provided a temptation and a test of Samson’s character. When he scraped the honey out of the lion’s carcass with his hand (Judges 14:9), he broke part of his Nazirite vow. Nazirites were not to touch dead bodies (Numbers 6:6). He thought so little of his privileged position as separated to Yahweh that he forfeited some of that separate condition to satisfy his appetite (cf. Esau). Perhaps he did not tell his parents about the honey because he knew that he would have disappointed them for having broken his vow. By giving them some of the unclean honey without telling them that it was unclean, Samson callously led them into defilement. His parents had previously sanctified him, but now he desecrated them.