⁷ At that, Samson said to them, “Since you would do something like this, I will take revenge on you. Then I will stop.” ⁸ He ripped them to pieces^[a] in a devastating attack. Then he went down and stayed in the cleft in the Rock of Etam.

⁹ Meanwhile the Philistines went up, set up camp in Judah, and occupied the territory around Lehi.