Judges 13:1
Good News Translation
The Israelites sinned against the LORD again, and he let the Philistines rule them for forty years.

New Revised Standard Version
The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Contemporary English Version
Once again the Israelites started disobeying the LORD. So he let the Philistines take control of Israel for 40 years.

New American Bible
The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, who therefore delivered them into the power of the Philistines for forty years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

did.

Judges 2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

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

Judges 4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after the death of Aod:

Judges 6:1 And 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 10:6 But the children of Israel, adding new sins to their old ones, did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served idols, Baalim and Astaroth, and the gods of Syria, and of Sidon, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines: and they left the Lord, and did not serve him.

Romans 2:6 Who will render to every man according to his works.

in the sight

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

delivered.

1 Samuel 12:9 And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into the hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

Context
The Birth of Samson
1And 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.2Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:32
And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

Judges 12:15
And he died, and was buried in Pharathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of Amalech.

Judges 15:11
Wherefore three thousand men of Juda went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson: Knowest thou not that the Philistines rule over us? Why wouldst thou do thus? And he said to them: As they did to me, so have I done to them.

Judges 15:20
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

1 Samuel 4:9
Take 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.

1 Samuel 7:13
And the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more into the borders of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines, all the days of Samuel.

1 Samuel 12:9
And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into the hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

Judges 12:15
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