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When the Philistines asked, “Who did this,” they were told, “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite. He did it because they took his wife and gave her to his friend.” The Philistines therefore went and burned her and her father to death. Samson said to them, “Because you have done this, I will never stop getting my vengeance on you.” He struck them ruthlessly, slaughtering many of them. He then went down and dwelt in a fissure of the rock of Etam.

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