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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 burned to death Samson's wife and her father.[a]

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.” Then Samson started hacking them to pieces with his sword.[b]

Samson left Philistia and went to live in the cave at Etam Rock.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.6 and her father: Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and two ancient translations “and her family.”
  2. 15.8 hacking … sword: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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