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7 Bible
71 Old Testament
71F the time of the Judges
71F3 the time of Samson ~ the book of Judges

71F34 Samson in conflict with the Philistines (Judges 15:1-8)

            71F341 Samson goes with a kid to his wife and is refused entry by her father (2)
            71F342 Samson is told that his wife is given to another man and is offered her younger sister for wife
            71F343 Samson ties three hundred foxes two by two by their tails with a fire-brand in between; with the torches on fire he lets them go into the cornfields of the Philistines which are set aflame
            71F344 the Philistines burn Samson's wife and her father
            71F345 Samson avenges himself on the Philistines and smites them 'hip and thigh with great slaughter'
            71F346 Samson dwells in a cave of the rock of Etam


Rembrandt
Samson threatening his father-in-law
1635

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Samson threatening his father-in-law
1635/36