‘ And Samson said to them, “If you behave like this surely I will be avenged on you, and after that I will stop.”
The incident had all the appearance of a bitter family feud rather than a political rebellion. Samson's strategy of connecting himself with the Philistines had given him the opportunities he sought without bringing blame on his brothers. And now he had the perfect grounds for killing more Philistines, for he could declare that it was blood revenge for what they had done to his ‘family'. He could stress that their behaviour had brought it on themselves.