Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 14:9

"And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave unto them, and they did eat: but he told them not that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion." — Judges 14:9 (ASV)

He took of it in his hands. —Unless he considered that a skeleton could not be regarded as a dead body, he could not have done this without breaking the express conditions of his Nazarite vow (Numbers 5:6).

He did not tell them. —Perhaps from the general reticence of his character, but more probably because they might have been more scrupulous than he was about the ceremonial defilement involved in eating anything that had touched a carcass. Possibly, too, he may have already formulated the riddle in his mind, and did not wish to give any clue to its solution.