Judges 15:1-8
Samson Strikes Down the Philistines
15Now it happened that after a while, in the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife awith a young goat and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter. 2And her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I agave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please let her be yours 1instead.” 3Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.” 4So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails. 5Then he set fire to the torches and sent 1the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. So he caused both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves, to burn. 6Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because 1he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and aburned her and her father with fire. 7Then Samson said to them, “If you act like this, then I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will cease.” 8And he struck them 1ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.