If someone isn’t familiar with the whole Samson story and just knows the Cecil B. DeMille version, here’s the whole thing in its ghastly glory, straight out of the Bible, beautifully crated with Lego blocks:
“Murder” probably isn’t the right label. Remember, this was war.
Murder is exactly what it was. They were not at war, and he didn’t kill them as a part of an insurrection; he killed them just to get their robes so he could pay off a bet he lost to his Philistine wedding guests. Nothing military about it.