The burning of the cornfields

And Samson went [after his first wife’s father had given her to one of his companions] and caught three hundred fox and tied them together by the tail, tail to tail, and put a torch in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the torches on fire, he set the foxes free in the Philistines’ cornfields, burning both the stocks and also the standing corn together with the fields of olive trees. The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” And they answered, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timni because he took his wife and gave her to one of his companions.” So the Philistines went and burnt her and her father with fire. Samson said to them, “Because you have done this, I will avenge myself against you and only then will I stop.” And he smote them, from hip to thigh with a great slaughter in revenge and he went down…

Judges 15: 4 – 8