The Ekron Inscription is a stone tablet from a 2,700-year-old temple of the Philistines which lets them tell their own story. It suggests that the Philistines still remembered their roots in the Aegean centuries after they sailed east. "Then the Philistines said, "Who did this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire."
Samson said to them, "If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease."