Later on ... , at the time of the wheat harvest , Samson - took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “ I want to go to my wife in her room , ” he said. But her father would not let him enter.
“ I was sure ... that you thoroughly hated her ... , ” said her father , “ so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she ? Please take her instead. ”
Samson said “ This time I will be blameless - - - in doing harm to the Philistines. ”
Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches , turned the foxes tail-to-tail ... , ... and fastened a torch between each pair of tails ....
Then he lit ... the torches and released (the foxes) into the standing grain of the Philistines , burning up the piles of grain ... and the standing grain , as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
“ Who did this ? ” the Philistines demanded. “ It was Samson , the son-in-law of the Timnite , ” they were told. “ For - - his wife was given to his companion. ” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father - - to death.
And Samson told “ Because you have done this , I will not rest until ... I have taken vengeance -. ”
And he struck them Ruth -lessly ... ... with a great slaughter , and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
Then the Philistines went up , camped in Judah , and deployed themselves near (the town of) Lehi.
“ Why have you attacked us ? ” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied , “ We have come to arrest - Samson and pay him back for what he has done
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam , and they asked Samson , “ Do you not realize that the Philistines rule What ... have you done “ I have done what - they did he replied
But they said “ We have come down to arrest you and hand you over to ... the Philistines. ” Samson replied “ Swear - that you will not kill me
“ No , ” they answered - “ we will not ... kill you , but we will tie you up securely ... and hand you over to them. ” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
When (Samson) arrived in Lehi , the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes - on his arms became like burnt ... flax , - and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey , reached out his hand and took it , and struck down a thousand men.
Then Samson said : “ With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men. ”
And when (Samson) had finished speaking , he cast the jawbone from his hand ; and he named that place vvv Ramath-lehi.
And being very thirsty , (Samson) cried out to the LORD ... , “ You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. - Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised ? ”
So God - opened up the hollow place in Lehi , and water came out of it. When Samson drank , his strength returned , and he was revived. That is why ... he named it ... vvv En-hakkore , and it remains in Lehi to this day.
And (Samson) judged - Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.