1. Later, during the wheat harvest, Samson went to visit the young woman he thought was still his wife. He brought along a young goat as a gift and said to her father, “I want to go into my wife's bedroom.”“You can't do that,” he replied.
2. “When you left the way you did, I thought you were divorcing her. So I arranged for her to marry one of the young men who were at your party. But my younger daughter is even prettier, and you can have her as your wife.”
3. “This time,” Samson answered, “I have a good reason for really hurting some Philistines.”
4. Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them together in pairs with oil-soaked rags around their tails.
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.”
13-14. “We promise,” the men said. “We will only tie you up and turn you over to the Philistines. We won't kill you.” Then they tied up his hands and arms with two brand-new ropes and led him away from Etam Rock.When the Philistines saw that Samson was being brought to their camp at Jawbone, they started shouting and ran towards him. But the Lord's Spirit took control of Samson, and Samson broke the ropes, as though they were pieces of burnt cloth.