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
This event occurred during the time of the Judges when Israel was repeatedly oppressed by the Philistines. Samson had married a Philistine woman, but her father gave her to another man while Samson was away, which triggered this act of revenge. The destruction of crops was devastating in an agricultural society, as it could mean starvation for entire communities.
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