Samson, missing the physical pleasures of his wife, goes back to her house to claim her, but her father, thinking that he has abandoned her, gives her to his best man instead. So Samson went out, caught 300 foxes, and used their tails and wild energy to set fire to the crops of the Philistines as revenge. But revenge, as it so often does even today, only escalated the situation, and the Philistines retaliated by killing his former wife and her family. Thus began the long war between Samson and his enemies.
