Judges chapter 15 summary was Samson’s revenge.

The chapter began as Samson

returned to visit his wife, at least what he thought was his wife. However, his
would-be-father-in-law would not allow him to see his wife because he’d already
given her away to Samson’s friend. He did this because he believed Samson was
upset that she gave up his riddle to those men at their wedding feast. So Samson’s
would-be-father-in-law offered Samson’s would-be wife’s younger sister a unique
selling proposition; she was prettier than her sister. Samson was not pleased with
the slight and misfortune, so he set the Philistines vineyards on fire as the
repayment. The Philistines were upset about this and searched for who was
responsible. They found out who burned their vineyards and why and set out to
settle the score. What did they do? They burned his ex-wife and her father’s
household as well, to death. Sounds like organized crime type of retaliation by the
Philistines. They were like the mafia. Samson wasn’t done with them, as he broke
the hips and thighs of a bunch of them for their infraction. The Philistines didn’t give
up either and came after him. They invaded Judah looking for Samson and told the
men of Judah they came to bind Samson. The men of Judah ask Samson to turn
himself in. Samson agreed as long as Judah didn’t attempt to kill him. The Philistines
meant to kill him, but the Spirit of the Lord came upon Samson, and he took a
jawbone of a donkey and killed a thousand men with it. The chapter concluded
stating that Samson judged Israel twenty years because of his great defeat of the
Philistines. Judges chapter 16 summary began with a not so “Godly” story of
Samson. He heads up to Gaza and gets a prostitute and lays with her. While in
Gaza, some Philistines spot him and lay there waiting for him to kill him. He
triumphantly got out of that. The chapter switches to a time he met a woman he
loved named Delilah. What’s odd is that the Philistines were already on her to entice
him and find out his secret to his strength. They were going to pay her eleven
hundred pieces of silver. Delilah was all about the money and went to work pressing
Samson for his secret to his strength. He gave phony answers at first. After much
pressing, Samson told Delilah his secret, and she had his locks shaved off. When he
was ambushed, he realized he had no strength. The Philistines put his eyes out and
imprisoned him. His hair grows back and he implores the Lord to help him one more
time. Chained to the pillars of the building, he is able to knock them down, destroying
the building. He killed 3,000 lords of the Philistines and himself also. His brothers
came and buried him and Samson judged Israel 20 years.