It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
"He went down to Ashkelon, and smote thirty men of them, and took their spoil"  (Judges 14:20).  The city of Ashkelon, one of the Big Five of the Philistine cities was located at the southern extremity of their territory on the very edge of the Mediterranean Sea. "It still preserves its ancient name and was famous in the times of the Crusaders.  Within its walls and towers now standing, Richard Coeur de Lion held his court.  The variety of onion called the `eschalot' or `shallot' derived its name from this city, Eshkalon or Ashkalon."[15]