Acts 13:20

The Passion Translation

This took about four hundred and fifty years. “Then God raised up deliverers for the people until the time of the prophet Samuel.

Cross References

Acts 3:24

“In fact, every prophet from the time of Samuel onward has prophesied of these very days!

Judges 2:16

Nevertheless, Yahweh raised up deliverers from among them who rescued them from the marauding bands.

Judges 3:10

And the Spirit of Yahweh was upon him and empowered him to liberate Israel from bondage. He became Israel’s champion and went out to war, and Yahweh delivered into his hands Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Mesopotamia. Othniel overpowered him,

Ruth 1:1

During the era when champion-deliverers ruled in Israel, a severe famine overtook the land. Elimelech, a man of importance, left Bethlehem and immigrated to the country of Moab. He took with him his wife Naomi and their two sons, Mahlon and Chilion. They belonged to the clan of Ephrath from Bethlehem in Judah. While residing in Moab,