Judges 15:1-10 ▼

1 And it came to pass after some days, in the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid of the goats, and he said, “Let me go in to my wife in the inner chamber.” And her father would not permit him to go in.

2 And her father said, “I surely said that you surely hated her, and I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please take her to you, instead of her.”

3 And Samson said to them, “I shall be blameless this time regarding the Philistines, though I am doing them harm.”

4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and he took torches and turned them tail to tail, and he put one torch between the two tails in the middle.

5 And he kindled fire in the torches and sent them out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up from the shocks and to the standing grain, and to the vineyards and olive groves.

6 And the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they answered, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with the fire.

7 And Samson said to them, “Since you⁺ would do a thing like this, yet surely I will take revenge on you⁺, and afterward I will cease.”

8 And he struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter. And he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

9 And the Philistines went up and encamped in Judah, and they spread out in Lehi.

10 And the men of Judah said, “Why have you⁺ come up against us?” And they answered, “To bind Samson. We have come up to do to him as he has done to us.”