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Then he ignited the torches, set the foxes loose into the Philistines’ unharvested grain, and burned up both the harvested shocks and the standing grain, along with their vineyards and olive groves.

Then the Philistines demanded, “Who did this?”

Someone said, “Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because his father-in-law[a] took Samson’s[b] wife and gave her to the best man at Samson’s wedding.”[c] In retaliation, the Philistines came up and burned her and her father to death.

Samson replied to them, “Because you did this, I’m not going to stop until I get my revenge against you!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:6 Lit. because he
  2. Judges 15:6 Lit. his
  3. Judges 15:6 Lit. to his acquaintance; cf. Judg 14:20, 15:2