2. Her father said, “I thought that you thoroughly hated her, so I gave her to your best man. Is not her younger sister better than she? Please, let her be your wife instead.”
3. Samson said to them, “This time I cannot be blamed by the Philistines when I do them harm.”
4. Samson went and caught three hundred foxes. He took torches and turned the foxes tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.
5. He set fire to the torches and sent the foxes into standing grain of the Philistines. He burned the harvested grain, standing grain, vineyards, and olive trees.
6. The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because the Timnite took the bride of Samson and gave her to his best man.”So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.
7. Samson said to them, “Because you have done this, I will take revenge on you, and afterwards I will stop.”
8. He struck them down with a mighty blow, then went to live in a cave in Etam Rock.
9. Then the Philistines went up and set up camp in Judah. They deployed against Lehi.
10. The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?”They said, “It is to take Samson prisoner that we have come up, to do to him what he did to us.”
11. So three thousand men from Judah went to the cave in Etam Rock and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling us? Why have you done this to us?”He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”
12. They said to him, “We have come to take you prisoner, to give you into the hands of the Philistines.”Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me.”