Judges 15:1-8

1But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife 1with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter. 2Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I 2gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister 3more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours 4instead.” 3Samson then said to them, “This time I shall be blameless in regard to the Philistines when I do them harm.” 4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails. 5When he had set fire to the torches, he released 5the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves. 6Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because 6he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and 7burned her and her father with fire. 7Samson said to them, “Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit.” 8He struck them 8ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.