Judges 13:1

And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

2And there was a man of Zorah, of the family of the kindred of Dan, and his name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and bore not.

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Cross References

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

Judges 6:1And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.

Judges 10:7And the Lord was very angry with Israel, and sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

1 Samuel 4:9Strengthen yourselves and behave yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye may not serve the Hebrews as they have served us, but be ye men and fight with them.

Jeremiah 13:23If the Ethiopian shall change his skin, or the leopardess her spots, then shall ye be able to do good, having 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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