Judges 13:1

New Century Version

Again the people of Israel did what the Lord said was wrong. So he handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Cross References

Jeremiah 13:23

Can a person from Cush change the color of his skin? Can a leopard change his spots? In the same way, Jerusalem, you cannot change and do good, because you are accustomed to doing evil.

Romans 2:6

God will reward or punish every person for what that person has done.

Hebrews 11:32

Do I need to give more examples? I do not have time to tell you about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets.

Judges 10:6

Again the Israelites did what the Lord said was wrong. They worshiped Baal and Ashtoreth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. The Israelites left the Lord and stopped serving him.

Judges 10:7

So the Lord was angry with them and handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites.

Judges 12:15

Then Abdon son of Hillel died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mountains where the Amalekites lived.

Judges 14:4

(Samson’s parents did not know that the Lord wanted this to happen because he was looking for a way to challenge the Philistines, who were ruling over Israel at this time.)

Judges 15:11

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “What have you done to us? Don’t you know that the Philistines rule over us?” Samson answered, “I only paid them back for what they did to me.”

Judges 15:20

Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Judges 2:11

So they did what the Lord said was wrong, and they worshiped the Baal idols.

Judges 3:7

The Israelites did what the Lord said was wrong. They forgot about the Lord their God and served the idols of Baal and Asherah.

Judges 4:1

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did what the Lord said was wrong.

Judges 6:1

Again the Israelites did what the Lord said was wrong. So for seven years the Lord handed them over to Midian.

1 Samuel 12:9

“But they forgot the Lord their God. So he handed them over as slaves to Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and as slaves to the Philistines and the king of Moab. They all fought against your ancestors.

1 Samuel 4:9

Be brave, Philistines! Fight like men! In the past they were our slaves. So fight like men, or we will become their slaves.”

1 Samuel 7:13

So the Philistines were defeated and did not enter the Israelites’ land again. The Lord was against the Philistines all Samuel’s life.