Judges 13:1

And the Bnei Yisroel did harah again in the sight of Hashem; and Hashem delivered them into the yad Pelishtim arba'im shanah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 certain ish from Tzorah, of the mishpakhat HaDani, whose shem was Manoach; and his isha was barren and bore not.

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Cross References

Judges 3:7And the Bnei Yisroel did evil in the sight of Hashem, and forgot Hashem Eloheihem, and served Ba'alim and the Asherot.

Judges 6:1And the Bnei Yisroel did evil in the sight of Hashem; Hashem delivered them into the yad Midyan + 6:1 See Gn 25:2 sheva shanim.

Judges 10:7And the Af Hashem was hot against Yisroel, and He sold them into the yad Pelishtim (Philistines), and into the yad Bnei Ammon.

1 Samuel 4:9Be strong and conduct yourselves like anashim, O ye Pelishtim (Philistines), that ye be not avadim unto the Ivrim (Hebrews), as they have been subject to you; conduct yourselves like anashim, and fight.

Jeremiah 13:23Can the Cushi (Ethiopian) change his ohr (skin), 1 or the namer (leopard) his spots? 1 Then may ye also do tov, 1 that are accustomed to do rah. 1

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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