The Birth of Samson

13 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines^(A) for forty years.^(B)

⁹ “But they forgot^(A) the Lord their God; so he sold them^(B) into the hand of Sisera,^(C) the commander of the army of Hazor,^(D) and into the hands of the Philistines^(E) and the king of Moab,^(F) who fought against them.

Gideon

6 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord,^(A) and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.^(B)

⁶ God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”^[a](A)

Othniel

⁷ The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord^(A) their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.^(B)