Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
Judges 15:4 - Revised Version 1885 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for foxes.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.
and say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let thine heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.
And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing corn, and also the oliveyards.