4Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between every two tails.


In Context

1 But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a young goat; and he said, |I will go in to my wife into the room.| But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.

2 Her father said, |I most certainly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.|

3 Samson said to them, |This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them.|

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

5 When he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.

6 Then the Philistines said, |Who has done this?| They said, |Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion.| The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

Judges 15:4 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:4So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:4And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:4And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:4So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches; and he turned them tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and put a fire-brand in the midst between two tails.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:4And Samson goeth and catcheth three hundred foxes, and taketh torches, and turneth tail unto tail, and putteth a torch between the two tails, in the midst,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middle between two tails.