Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
Judges 15:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took some torches, and he turned the foxes tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So Samson went and caught 300 foxes or jackals and took torches and turning the foxes tail to tail, he put a torch between each pair of tails. American Standard Version (1901) And 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. Common English Bible Then Samson went and caught three hundred foxes. He took torches, turned the foxes tail to tail, and put a torch between each pair of tails. Catholic Public Domain Version And he went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he joined them tail to tail. And he tied torches between the tails. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he went and caught three hundred foxes, and coupled them tail to tail, and fastened torches between the tails. |
Then he said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be prey for jackals.
Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in blossom.”
and say to him: Take heed, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.
Samson said to them, “This time, when I do mischief to the Philistines, I will be without blame.”
When he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and burned up the shocks and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.