Judges 15:4-14

⁴And he went, and took three hundred foxes, and he joined together their tails to tails, and he bound fire brands in middle of the tails,

⁵which he kindled with fire, and let them go, that they should run about hither and thither; which went anon into the corns of the Philistines, by which kindled, both the corns borne now together, and yet standing in the stubble, were burnt, in so much that the flame wasted vineries or vines, and places of olive trees.

⁶And the Philistines said, Who did this thing? To whom it was said, Samson, the husband of Timnite’s daughter, for he took away Samson’s wife, and gave her to another man. And the Philistines went up, and burnt both the woman and her father.

⁷To the which Philistines Samson said, Though ye have done this thing, nevertheless yet I shall ask and take vengeance of you, and then I shall rest.

⁸And he smote them with great wound, so that they wondered, and putted the hinder part of the hip on the thigh; and he went down, and dwelled in the den of the stone of Etam.

⁹Then the Philistines went up into the land of Judah, and they setted tents in the place, that was called afterward Lehi, that is, a cheek bone, where their host was spread abroad.

¹⁰And men of the lineage of Judah said to them, Why have ye gone up against us? The which answered, We come that we bind Samson, and yield to him those things the which he hath wrought against us.

¹¹Therefore three thousand of men of Judah went down to the den of the flint of Etam; and they said to Samson, Knowest thou not, that the Philistines command to us, that is, they have lordship on us? Why wouldest thou do this thing to them? To whom he said, As they did to me, so I did to them.

¹²They said, We come to bind thee, and to betake thee into the hands of Philistines. To whom Samson answered, Swear ye, and promise ye to me, that ye slay not me.

¹³And they said, We shall not slay thee, but we shall betake thee bound to them. And they bound him with two new cords, and took him from the stone of Etam.

¹⁴And when they had come to the place that is called Cheekbone, and the Philistines crying high had run to him, the spirit of the Lord felled into him, and as sticks be wont to be wasted at the hot tasting of fire, so and the bonds, with which he was bound, were scattered and loosed.