Judges 15:20

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

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  • Judg 13:1 : 1 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.
  • Judg 16:31 : 31 Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah, his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.
  • Heb 11:32 : 32 And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
  • Judg 13:5 : 5 For you will conceive and give birth to a son, and no razor is to touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to rescue Israel from the power of the Philistines.

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  • Judg 10:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1After Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, arose to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

    2Tola judged Israel for twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir.

    3After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and judged Israel for twenty-two years.

  • 1 Sam 7:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15Samuel continued to judge Israel all the days of his life.

    16Each year, Samuel traveled in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

    17But he always returned to Ramah, where his home was. There he judged Israel and also built an altar to the LORD.

  • Judg 16:31
    74%

    31Then his brothers and his father's whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah, his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.

  • Judg 15:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone, and the place was called Ramath-lehi.

    18Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great deliverance. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

    19Then God opened up a hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore, and it is still there in Lehi.

  • Judg 13:1
    72%

    1The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

  • Acts 13:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20All this took about 450 years. Afterward, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

    21Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who ruled for forty years.

  • Judg 12:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13After him, Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

    14He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.

  • Judg 3:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

    30That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

    31After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.

  • 1 Sam 17:16
    69%

    16The Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand for forty days.

  • Judg 15:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8He attacked them viciously, defeating them completely. Then he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

    9The Philistines went up and camped in Judah, spreading out near Lehi.

  • Judg 12:7-9
    3 verses
    69%

    7Jephthah judged Israel for six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in the towns of Gilead.

    8After him, Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel.

    9He had thirty sons and thirty daughters. He sent his daughters outside the family for marriage and brought in thirty daughters from outside for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.

  • Judg 15:15
    69%

    15Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he reached out, took it, and struck down a thousand men with it.

  • Judg 3:10
    69%

    10The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went to war, and the Lord delivered Cushan-Rishathaim, king of Aram, into his hand, giving him victory over Cushan-Rishathaim.

  • 1 Sam 7:7
    68%

    7When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had assembled at Mizpah, their rulers marched up against Israel. When the Israelites heard of this, they were afraid of the Philistines.

  • 2 Sam 23:12
    67%

    12But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field. He defended it and struck down the Philistines, and the LORD brought about a great victory.

  • 1 Sam 17:52
    67%

    52The men of Israel and Judah rose up, shouted, and pursued the Philistines all the way to the entrance of the valley and to the gates of Ekron. The dead Philistines lay scattered along the road to Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron.

  • 2 Sam 21:15
    67%

    15Once again, there was war between the Philistines and Israel. David went down with his men to fight the Philistines, and he became exhausted.

  • Judg 12:11
    67%

    11After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel. He judged Israel for ten years.

  • 1 Sam 7:2
    66%

    2From the day the Ark came to rest in Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed—twenty years in all. During that time, the entire house of Israel lamented and sought after the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
    66%

    1The Philistines gathered all their armies at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

  • 1 Sam 17:19
    66%

    19Saul, your brothers, and the men of Israel are in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.

  • Judg 14:4
    66%

    4Now his father and mother did not know that this was from the LORD, for he was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines. At that time, the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

  • Judg 2:18
    66%

    18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for them, he was with the judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies as long as the judge lived. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.

  • 1 Kgs 15:9
    66%

    9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa became king of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 7:13
    66%

    13So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israel's territory again. The hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

  • Judg 16:21-22
    2 verses
    66%

    21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.

    22But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

  • Jer 25:20
    66%

    20All the mixed peoples and all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of the Philistine cities: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod.

  • 1 Sam 27:7
    66%

    7David lived in Philistine territory for a year and four months.

  • 1 Sam 17:3
    66%

    3The Philistines stood on one hill, and Israel stood on another hill, with the valley between them.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
    66%

    10but Eleazar stood his ground and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and froze to the sword. The LORD gave a great victory that day. The troops returned to him only to strip the dead.

  • Judg 15:11
    66%

    11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, "Don’t you know that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?" He replied, "I only did to them what they did to me."

  • 1 Sam 14:30
    66%

    30How much better it would have been if the men had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies. Would not the defeat of the Philistines have been even greater?