Judges 13:1

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

In Context

2Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.

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Cross References

Judges 3:7And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.

Judges 6:1And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hand of Madian seven years.

Judges 10:7And the Lord being angry with them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and of the children of Ammon.

1 Samuel 4:9Take courage and behave like men, ye Philistines: lest you come to be servants to the Hebrews, as they have served you: take courage and fight.

Jeremiah 13:23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you may also do well, when you have learned evil.

Matthew Henry on Judges 13:1

At this chapter begins the story of Samson, the last of the judges of Israel whose story is recorded in this book, and next before Eli. The passages related concerning him are, from first to last, very surprising and uncommon. The figure he makes in this history is really great, and yet vastly different from that of his predecessors. We never find him at the head either of a court or of an army, never upon the throne of judgment nor in the field of battle, yet, in his own proper person, a great patriot of his… Read the whole commentary →

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