15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals 1 and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. 2 15:5 He lit the torches 3 and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
1 tn Traditionally, “foxes.”
2 tnHeb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”