⁴ Then Samson went and captured three hundred foxes,^[a] took torches, tied the foxes tail to tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails. ⁵ He set fire to the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up sheaves of grain, the standing grain, the vineyards, and the olive groves.

⁶ The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” They were told, “Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah, did it, because the man took Samson’s wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.