Judges 15:4

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put one torch between two tails in the midst;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

In Context

3And Samson said to them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them evil.

5And he set the torches on fire, and let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both shocks and standing corn, as also olive-yards.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:30He thereupon said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is alongside of mine, and he hath barley there: go and set it on fire. And Abshalom's servants set the field on fire.

Song of Solomon 2:15Seize for us the foxes, the little foxes, that injure the vineyards; for our vineyards have young grapes.

Matthew Henry on Judges 15:2-9

Samson's Firebrands. ( b. c. 1141.) 1 But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. 2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her. 3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than… Read the whole commentary →

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