At harvest time, Samson went to visit his wife, bringing with him a kid. But her father would not let him enter. He said, "I thought that you gave her up; so, I gave her to your best man. You may have her sister who is more beautiful."
Samson said, "This time the Philistine cannot blame me if I harm them." So he left and caught three foxes. He tied torches on their tails. He then kindled the torches and set the foxes loose on the grains of the Philistines, burning both the grain and the vineyards and olive orchards.
When the Philistines asked who had done this, they were told, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Tamaathite." So the Philistines destroyed her and her family by fire. This is how Samson revenge on the Philistines.
Then the Philistines went to attack Juda. The people of Juda asked them, "Why have you come against us?"
"To take Samson prisoner," they said. Three thousand Judans went to the cave where Samson was and told him, "Don't you know that the Philistines are our rulers?"
He answered, "As they have done to me, so I have done to them."
The people said, "We came to deliver you to the Philistines."
Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not kill me ourselves."
"No," the said, "we will not kill you."
So, Samson let them bind him with two new ropes and he was given to the Philistines who shouted with joy.
The spirit of the Lord came upon him: the ropes were broken and the bands melted from his hands. Near him was a jawbone of a horse; he got it and with it, killed a thousand men. He was very thirsty and begged the Lord for water. God split the rock and water flowed from it which Samson drank till he revived.
Samson judged Israel for twenty years.
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