Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
Then the Philistines asked, 'Who did this?' And they were told, 'Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah, because the man took Samson's wife and gave her to his best man.' So the Philistines went and burned her and her father to death.
The Philistines discovered that Samson had destroyed their crops in revenge for losing his wife, so they brutally killed his wife and her father in response.
📚 Historical Context
This occurs during the period when Israel had no king and was oppressed by the Philistines. Samson had married a Philistine woman, but when he left after a dispute, her father gave her to another man. In revenge, Samson had tied torches to foxes' tails and sent them through the Philistines' grain fields, destroying their harvest.
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