Judges 15 Samson sets fire to the Philistine crops

 Judges 15

Samson sets fire to the Philistine crops

1 And it came to pass, after a few days, that in the wheat harvest Samson visited his wife with a goat, and said, I will enter my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't let him in.

2 For her father said, Surely I said that you bothered her at all: so that I gave it to your companion: but is not her younger sister, more beautiful than she? therefore take it in its place.

3 Then Samson said of them, I am innocent this time to the Philistines, when I do them harm.

4 And it was Samson, and took three hundred foxes: and taking tic tacs, he turned them tail to tail, and put a tic t in the middle of each two tails.

5 And fire came to the firebrands, and left them in the Philistines' field: and so he burned the sauces with the wheat harvest, and the vines with the olive groves.

6 Then said the Philistines, Who did this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the timnata, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. Then the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.

7 Then Samson said to them, "So would you do it? for when I have avenged myself on you, then I will cease.

8 And he smote them with a great wound, leg with thigh: and went down, and dwelt on the top of the rock of Ethan.

9 Then the Philistines went up, and camped against Judah, and stretched out over Lehi.