Judges 3:7

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

Judges 5:11

5:11 Hear the sound of those who divide the sheep among the watering places;

there they tell of the Lord’s victorious deeds,

the victorious deeds of his warriors in Israel.

Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

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 13:21

13:21 The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger.