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Chapter 15 tells how Samson became a Judge of Israel. He goes back to his father-in-laws house to reclaim his wife only to find that she was now the wife of the man he had given her to. The father-in-law tries to appease Samson by offering him the younger sister, but Samson gets very angry and he catches 300 foxes, ties their tails together in pairs with a torch between them and sets them loose. They set fire to the fields and orchards of the Philistines. When the Philistines find out why Samson has done this, they get his father-in-law and his ex-wife and burn them alive. This made Samson even angrier and he went out and slaughtered a great number of the Philistines. Then he goes home.
The Philistines are outraged and they go to Samson's home in Judah to take him back to pay for his crimes. The men of Judah find Samson and he allows them to bind and take him to the Philistines. But the Spirit of the Lord comes upon Samson, and when he sees the Philistines, the bonds "dissolve like wax" and he finds a jawbone of an ass and kills 1,000 Philistines. All this activity made Samson thirsty and he called unto the Lord and the Lord spat upon a hollow place in a rock and it flowed with water. Verse 20 says, "Samson judged Israel in the days of the Philistines for 20 years."
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