And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
After he lit the torches on fire, he released the foxes into the Philistines' grain fields, and they burned up both the bundles of harvested grain and the grain still growing in the fields, along with the vineyards and olive groves.
Samson used foxes with burning torches tied to their tails to destroy the Philistines' crops as revenge for taking away his wife.
📚 Historical Context
In the biblical narrative, Samson was a judge of Israel who had a series of conflicts with the Philistines, who were ruling over the Israelites at the time. After the Philistines burned Samson's wife and her family as an act of betrayal, he sought revenge by capturing foxes, tying torches to their tails, and releasing them into the Philistine fields to destroy their crops. This event highlights the ongoing cycle of violence and retribution during the period of the Judges, when Israel lacked a centralized king and often faced oppression from neighboring peoples.
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