1 After some time, in the season of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife, bringing a young goat. But when he said, “Let me go into my wife’s room,” her father would not let him go in.
2 He said, “I thought you hated her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is better; you may have her instead.”
3 Samson said to him, “This time I am guiltless if I harm the Philistines.”
4 So Samson went and caught three hundred jackals, and turning them tail to tail, he took some torches and tied one between each pair of tails.
5 He then kindled the torches and set the jackals loose in the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning both the shocks and standing grain, the vineyards and olive groves.