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Judges 15:4

Judges 15:4 is verse 4 of Judges chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

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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.

World English Bible

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails.

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Judges 15:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

3 Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in doing harm to the Philistines.”

4 Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.

5 Then he lit the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, burning up the piles of grain and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

6 “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

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Hebrew words

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְand he went שִׁמְשׁ֔וֹןSamson וַיִּלְכֹּ֖דand he captured שְׁלֹשׁthree מֵא֣וֹתhundred<s>שׁוּעָלִ֑יםfoxes וַיִּקַּ֣חand he took לַפִּדִ֗יםtorches וַיֶּ֤פֶןand he turned זָנָב֙tail אֶלto זָנָ֔בtail וַיָּ֨שֶׂםand he put לַפִּ֥ידa torch אֶחָ֛דone בֵּיןbetween שְׁנֵ֥י[the] two הַזְּנָב֖וֹתthe tails בַּתָּֽוֶךְin the middle

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 63:10
They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.

Song of Solomon 2:15
Catch for us the foxes— the little foxes that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in bloom.

Lamentations 5:18
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.

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