1. But it came to pass within some days in the time of wheat harvest that Samson visited his wife with a kid, and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not allow him to go in.
2. And her father said, I was persuaded that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore, I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
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.