4 He went and caught three hundred foxes and tied their tails together, two by two. 5 He attached a torch to each of the tied tails and set them on fire. Then he let them loose in the grain fields of the Philistines, setting fire to all the grain, harvested and unharvested, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
6 "Who did this?" the Philistines asked. "It was Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah," they were told. "That man gave Samson’s wife to Samson’s best man." So the Philistines went and burned her and her father to death.
14 When Samson got close to Lehi, the Philistines ran towards him, shouting at him. But the Spirit of the Lord swept over him, and the ropes tying his arms together became as weak as burnt flax, and his hands broke free. 15 He grabbed the fresh15:15. In other words, the bone was not dry and brittle. jawbone of a donkey, using it to kill a thousand Philistines.
20 Samson led Israel as judge for twenty years during the time of the Philistines.