5. Then he ignited the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the piles of grain and the standing grain as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6. Then the Philistines asked, “Who did this? ”They were told, “It was Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because he has taken Samson’s wife and given her to another man.” So the Philistines went to her and her father and burned them to death.
7. Then Samson told them, “Because you did this, I swear that I won’t rest until I have taken vengeance on you.”
8. He tore them limb from limb with a great slaughter, and he went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
9. The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and raided Lehi.
10. So the men of Judah said, “Why have you attacked us? ”They replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he did to us.”
11. Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us? ”“I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.