BRAGADAYJAH 765
Samson sought to be re-united
It came to pass that after a good while
had passed, Samson returned unto his wife with a present for her; but on
arrival, her father barred him from entering her chamber, and gave the explanation
that he had given her to someone else, as given the passage of time, he thought
that Samson hated her, and had abandoned her forever. The father told Samson that he had another
daughter even prettier than her sister, and invited Samson to take her instead.
Samson did not accede, but turned away and caught three hundred foxes and tied
their tails together, and set them on fire and drove them through the standing
cornfields of the Philistines, burning the corn and everything in its wake.
When the Philistines enquired who had done the damage, they were told it was
Sampson because he was angry that his wife’s father had taken her, and had
given her to one of her companions; so the Philistines went and burnt Samson’s
wife and her father with fire. But Sampson sought revenge against the
Philistines because they had killed his wife and so he attacked them and
slaughter them with a great slaughter, and thereafter, he went and dwelt on a
high place, the top of a rock called Etam. It may be noted that this place
called E’tam may well have been a naturally fortified place, a place where it
was not safe to go to, since it was inhabited by wild beasts; a place only the
fearless would dare to inhabit.
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