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Then he set fire to the torches and turned the foxes loose in the Philistine wheat fields. In this way he burned up not only the wheat that had been harvested but also the wheat that was still in the fields. The olive orchards were also burned. When the Philistines asked who had done this, they learned that Samson had done it because his father-in-law, a man from Timnah, had given Samson's wife to a friend of Samson's. So the Philistines went and burned the woman to death and burned down her father's house.[a]

Samson told them, “So this is how you act! I swear that I won't stop until I pay you back!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:6 burned the woman … house; or burned the woman and her family to death.

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