Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

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

Judges 14:4

14:4 Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, 2  because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines 3  (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

Deuteronomy 28:13

28:13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his 4  commandments which I am urging 5  you today to be careful to do.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48

The Curse of Military Siege

28:47 “Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have, 28:48 instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty 6  you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They 7  will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

Psalms 106:41

106:41 He handed them over to 8  the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

1 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

2 tn Heb “this was from the LORD.”

3 tn Heb “for an opportunity he was seeking from the Philistines.”

3 tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.

4 tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV); NASB “which I charge you today.”

4 tn Heb “lack of everything.”

5 tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies (cf. CEV, NLT). Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NASB, NIV, NCV, NRSV, TEV).

5 tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”