JUDGES 15

SAMSON RETALIATES + RESPONDS WITH ANGER

When Samson discovers he no longer has a bride, he is angry and confused. The bride’s father offers up his other daughter as a consolation, but Samson is not interested. In retaliation, Samson collects three hundred foxes, ties their tails together, lights them on fire, and sends them running throughout the father’s crops, burning them all down.

In response to Samson’s act of malice, the Philistines want him captured. During his battle with the Philistines, God’s spirit comes upon Samson and he uses this strength to kill one thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey. Samson continues to serve as the judge over Israel for the following twenty years.