Judges 15:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ 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

⁴ 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)

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

⁴ 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

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

Judges 15:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:30

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.

Psalm 63:10

they shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be prey for jackals.

Proverbs 26:18

Like a maniac who shoots deadly firebrands and arrows,

Song of Solomon 2:15

Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that ruin the vineyards— for our vineyards are in blossom.”

Isaiah 7:4

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.

Lamentations 5:18

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; jackals prowl over it.

Judges 15:3

Samson said to them, “This time, when I do mischief to the Philistines, I will be without blame.”

Judges 15:5

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.