Acts 13:20

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All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

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  • Judg 2:16 : 16 The LORD raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.
  • 1 Sam 3:20 : 20 All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.
  • 1 Sam 12:11 : 11 So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
  • 2 Sam 7:11 : 11 and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that he himself will build a dynastic house for you.
  • 2 Kgs 23:22 : 22 He issued this edict because a Passover like this had not been observed since the days of the judges who led Israel; it was neglected for the entire period of the kings of Israel and Judah.
  • 1 Chr 17:6 : 6 Wherever I moved throughout Israel, I did not say to any of the leaders whom I appointed to care for my people Israel,‘Why have you not built me a house made from cedar?’”’
  • Acts 3:24 : 24 And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.
  • Judg 3:10 : 10 The LORD’s Spirit empowered him and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the LORD handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Armon and he overpowered him.
  • Ruth 1:1 : 1 ¶ A Family Tragedy: Famine and Death During the time of the judges there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.

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

  • Acts 13:18-19
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    18For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

    19After he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave his people their land as an inheritance.

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    15So Samuel led Israel all the days of his life.

    16Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

  • 1 Sam 8:1
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    1Israel Seeks a King In his old age Samuel appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

  • Judg 15:20
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    20Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.

  • Judg 2:18-19
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    18When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.

    19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

  • Judg 13:1
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    1Samson’s Birth The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

  • Judg 2:16
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    16The LORD raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.

  • 1 Sam 8:4-7
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    4So all the elders of Israel gathered together and approached Samuel at Ramah.

    5They said to him,“Look, you are old, and your sons don’t follow your ways. So now appoint over us a king to lead us, just like all the other nations have.”

    6But this request displeased Samuel, for they said,“Give us a king to lead us.” So Samuel prayed to the LORD.

    7The LORD said to Samuel,“Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.

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    40Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

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    15Then Samuel set out and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. Saul mustered the army that remained with him; there were about six hundred men.

  • 1 Sam 12:11
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    11So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.

  • 1 Sam 8:9-11
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    9So now do as they say. But you must warn them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them.”

    10So Samuel spoke all of the LORD’S words to the people who were asking him for a king.

    11He said,“Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.

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    30You prolonged your kindness with them for many years, and you solemnly admonished them by your Spirit through your prophets. Still they paid no attention, so you delivered them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.

  • 1 Sam 7:13
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    13So the Philistines were defeated; they did not invade Israel again. The hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

  • 1 Sam 12:1
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    1Samuel said to all Israel,“I have done everything you requested. I have given you a king.

  • 1 Sam 13:1
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  • Acts 7:6
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    6But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

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    32And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

  • 1 Sam 9:15-16
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    15Now the day before Saul arrived, the LORD had told Samuel:

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    13Then Samuel said to Saul,“You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the LORD your God gave you. Had you done that, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!

  • 1 Sam 8:19
    65%

    19But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said,“No! There will be a king over us!

  • 1 Sam 8:22
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    22The LORD said to Samuel,“Do as they say and install a king over them.” Then Samuel said to the men of Israel,“Each of you go back to his own city.”

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    6Samuel said to the people,“The LORD is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt.

  • 1 Sam 15:10
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    10Then the LORD’s message came to Samuel:

  • 2 Sam 7:11
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    11and during the time when I appointed judges to lead my people Israel. Instead, I will give you relief from all your enemies. The LORD declares to you that he himself will build a dynastic house for you.

  • Acts 3:24
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    24And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

  • 1 Kgs 11:42
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    42Solomon ruled over all Israel from Jerusalem for forty years.

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    20All Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba realized that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    64%

    19But today you have rejected your God who saves you from all your trouble and distress. You have said,“No! Appoint a king over us.” Now take your positions before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans.’”

  • Acts 7:42
    64%

    42But God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, was it, house of Israel?

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    64%

    13Now look! Here is the king you have chosen– the one that you asked for! Look, the LORD has given you a king!

  • Hos 13:10
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  • Judg 16:31
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    31His brothers and all his family went down and brought him back. They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.

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    2The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

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    20Then Hannah became pregnant. Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the LordIn the course of time she gave birth to a son. And she named him Samuel, thinking,“I asked the LORD for him.”