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And the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” And the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire. Samson said to them, “If you want to behave like this, I swear I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you.” And he gave them a thorough beating,[a] and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 15:8 Literally “he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow”