The Three Hundred Foxes That Turn Backward

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 70:4

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"And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes" (Judges 15:4). Why specifically foxes? Rabbi Aivu bar Nagdi said in the name of Rabbi Chiya bar Abba, who said in the name of Rabbi Shimon: Let the creature that turns backward come and exact punishment from the Philistines, who turned back on their oath.

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