After a while, when it was time to harvest wheat, Samson took a young goat to see his wife and said, “I will go into the inner chamber to see my wife.”. His father-in-law did not allow him to enter,

I estimate that you hate her extremely, so I gave her to your company. Isn’t her sister even more beautiful than her? You can marry to replace her.

Samson said, ‘I am not guilty of causing harm to the Philistines this time.’.

So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes (also known as wild dogs), tied their tails one by one, and tied a torch between the two tails,

Light a torch and let the fox enter the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the sheaves and uncut grain, as well as the olive grove.

The Philistines said, Who did this? Some people say it was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnah people, because his father-in-law gave his wife to his companion. So the Philistines went up and burned the woman and her father with fire.

Samson said to the Philistines, “Since you have done this, I will seek revenge on you before I will give up.”.

Samson dealt a great blow to them, cutting off their legs and waist. He went down and stayed in the cave of the rock Etam.

The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and dispersed in Rehi.

The Jews said, Why have you come up against us? They said, ‘We came up to bind Samson.’. We will do the same to him as he does to us.

So three thousand Jews went down to the cave of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, Do you not know that the Philistines have dominion over us? What are you doing to us? He replied, ‘Whatever they do to me, I will do to them as well.’.

The Jews said to him, “We came down to bind you and deliver you into the hands of the Philistines.”. Samson said, Swear to me that you will not harm me.

They said, We will never kill you, but we will bind you and hand you over to the hands of the Philistines. So he tied Samson with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock of Etam.

When Samson arrived at Lehi, the Philistines all shouted in response. The spirit of the Lord moved Samson greatly, and the ropes on his arms were like burning hemp, and all his ropes fell off his hands.

He saw an unfinished donkey cheek bone and reached out to pick it up, using it to kill a thousand people.

Samson said, “I killed a pile with the jawbone of a donkey, and a thousand people with the jawbone of a donkey.”.

After saying these words, he threw the jawbone out of his hand. That place is called Ramorah.

Samson was very thirsty and called on the Lord, saying, “Since you have carried out such a great salvation by your servant’s hand, should you let me die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”?

God caused the depression of Rehi to crack open, and water gushed out from it. Samson drank and regained his spirit. Therefore the name of the spring is Enhagoli, and it is still in Lehi to this day.

When the Philistines ruled over Israel, Samson judged Israel for twenty years.