3
And Samson replied unto them, Now I shall be blameless before the Philistines if I do them injury.
4
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turning them tail to tail, he put a torch between every two tails.
5
Then, setting the torches on fire, he let
them go into the standing grain of the Philistines and burnt up both the shocks and also the standing grain with the vineyards
and oliveyards.
6
Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up and burnt her and her father with fire.
7
And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
8
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock Etam.
9
Then the Philistines went up and pitched camp in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi.
10
And the men of Judah said, Why have ye come up against us? And they answered, We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.
11
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock Etam and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines
are rulers over us? What
is this
that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.
12
And they said unto him, We have come to bind thee that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.
13
And they answered him, saying, No, we will bind thee fast and deliver thee into their hands; but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords and brought him up from the rock.