Judges 3:3
3:3 These were the nations:
the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath.
Judges 3:31
3:31 After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud, delivered Israel.
Judges 10:11
10:11 The
Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
Judges 13:1
Samson’s Birth
13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 14:2
14:2 When he got home,
he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye.
Now get her for my wife.”
Judges 14:4
14:4 Now his father and mother did not realize this was the
Lord’s doing,
because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines
(for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).
Judges 15:5
15:5 He lit the torches
and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
Judges 15:12
15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me
you will not kill
me.”
Judges 16:12
16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here,
Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.)
But he tore the ropes
from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.
Judges 16:14
16:14 So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are here,
Samson!”
He woke up
and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.
Judges 16:20-21
16:20 She said, “The Philistines are here,
Samson!” He woke up
and thought,
“I will do as I did before
and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the
Lord had left him.
16:21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.
Judges 16:23
Samson’s Death and Burial
16:23 The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”
Judges 16:27
16:27 Now the temple
was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.