Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Judges 15:5-9 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

5. Then Samson took the foxes into the Philistine wheat fields that were ready to be harvested. He set the rags on fire and let the foxes go. The wheat fields went up in flames, and so did the stacks of wheat that had already been cut. Even the Philistine vineyards and olive orchards burnt.

6. Some of the Philistines started asking around, “Who could have done such a thing?”“It was Samson,” someone told them. “He married the daughter of that man in Timnah, but then the man gave Samson's wife to one of the men at the wedding.”The Philistine leaders went to Timnah and burnt to death Samson's wife and her father.

7. When Samson found out what they had done, he went to them and said, “You killed them! And I won't rest until I get even with you.”

8. Then Samson started hacking them to pieces with his sword.Samson left Philistia and went to live in the cave at Etam Rock.

9. But it wasn't long before the Philistines invaded Judah and set up a huge army camp at Jawbone.