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The Philistines asked, “Who did this?”

Someone told them, “Samson, the son-in-law of the man from Timnah, did. He did this because his father-in-law gave his wife to his best man.”

So the Philistines burned Samson’s wife and her father to death. Then Samson said to the Philistines, “Since you did this, I will hurt you, too! I won’t stop until I pay you back!” Samson attacked the Philistines and killed many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave. It was in the rock of Etam.

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