Judges 15:1-8

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15 Later on, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a present to his wife, intending to sleep with her; but her father wouldn’t let him in.

² “I really thought you hated her,” he explained, “so I married her to your best man. But look, her sister is prettier than she is. Marry her instead.”

³ Samson was furious. “You can’t blame me for whatever happens now,” he shouted.

⁴ So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied their tails together in pairs, with a torch between each pair. ⁵ Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines, burning the grain to the ground along with all the sheaves and shocks of grain, and destroying the olive trees.

⁶ “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded.

“Samson,” was the reply, “because his wife’s father gave her to another man.” So the Philistines came and got the girl and her father and burned them alive.

⁷ “Now my vengeance will strike again!” Samson vowed. ⁸ So he attacked them with great fury and killed many of them. Then he went to live in a cave in the rock of Etam.