Judges 15:4

And Samson goes and catches three hundred foxes, and takes torches, and turns tail to tail, and puts a torch between the two tails, in the midst,

Literal Standard Version

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 says of them, “I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing evil with them.”

5and kindles fire in the torches, and sends [them] out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burns [it] from heap even to standing grain, even to vineyard [and] olive-yard.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:30And he says to his servants, “See, the portion of Joab [is] by the side of mine, and he has barley there; go and burn it with fire”; and the servants of Absalom burn the portion with fire.

Song of Solomon 2:15Seize for us foxes, || Little foxes—destroyers of vineyards, || Even our sweet-smelling vineyards.

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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