Judges 15:11

Easy To Read Version

Then 3000 men from the family group of Judah went to Samson. They went to the cave near the Rock of Etam. They said to him, “What have you done to us? Don’t you know that the Philistine people rule over us?”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 4:3

Etam’s sons were Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And they had a sister named Hazzelelponi.

Leviticus 26:25

You will have broken my Agreement, so I will punish you. I will bring armies against you. You will go into your cities for safety. But I will cause diseases to spread among you. And your enemies will defeat you.

Deuteronomy 28:13

The Lord will make you be like the head, not the tail. You will be on top, not on the bottom. This will happen if you listen to the commands of the Lord your God that I tell you today. You must carefully obey these commands.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigners living among you will get more and more power. And you will lose the power you had.

Judges 13:1

Again the Lord saw the people of Israel doing evil things. So the Lord allowed the Philistine people to rule over them for 40 years.

Judges 14:4

(Samson’s parents did not know that the Lord wanted this to happen. The Lord was looking for a way to do something against the Philistine people. The Philistine people were ruling over the people of Israel at that time.)

Judges 15:10

The men of the family group of Judah asked them, “Why have you Philistine people come here to fight us?”

Judges 15:12

Then they said to Samson, “We have come to tie you up. We will give you to the Philistine people.”