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Deuteronomy 28:13
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the LORD your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.
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Judges 2:3
Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a trap for you.”
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Judges 15:11-12
Then three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson,“ Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule us? What have you done to us?”“ I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.They said to him,“ We’ve come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Then Samson told them,“ Swear to me that you yourselves won’t kill me.”
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2 Kings 24 14-2 Kings 24 16
He deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the best soldiers— ten thousand captives including all the craftsmen and metalsmiths. Except for the poorest people of the land, no one remained.Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. He took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.The king of Babylon brought captive into Babylon all seven thousand of the best soldiers and one thousand craftsmen and metalsmiths— all strong and fit for war.
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John 18:31
Pilate told them,“ You take him and judge him according to your law.”“ It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.
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Judges 10:7-10
So the LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them to the Philistines and the Ammonites.They shattered and crushed the Israelites that year, and for eighteen years they did the same to all the Israelites who were on the other side of the Jordan in the land of the Amorites in Gilead.The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim. Israel was greatly oppressed,so they cried out to the LORD, saying,“ We have sinned against you. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”
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2 Kings 17 20
So the LORD rejected all the descendants of Israel, punished them, and handed them over to plunderers until he had banished them from his presence.
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Judges 4:2-3
So the LORD sold them to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the Nations.Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he harshly oppressed them twenty years.
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2 Kings 17 23
Finally, the LORD removed Israel from his presence just as he had declared through all his servants the prophets. So Israel has been exiled to Assyria from their homeland to this very day.
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John 19:15
They shouted,“ Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them,“ Should I crucify your king?”“ We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered.
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Judges 2:11-15
The Israelites did what was evil in the LORD’s sight. They worshiped the Baalsand abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They angered the LORD,for they abandoned him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he handed them over to marauders who raided them. He sold them to the enemies around them, and they could no longer resist their enemies.Whenever the Israelites went out, the LORD was against them and brought disaster on them, just as he had promised and sworn to them. So they suffered greatly.
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1 Samuel 13 3-1 Samuel 13 7
Jonathan attacked the Philistine garrison in Gibeah, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul blew the ram’s horn throughout the land saying,“ Let the Hebrews hear!”And all Israel heard the news,“ Saul has attacked the Philistine garrison, and Israel is now repulsive to the Philistines.” Then the troops were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.The Philistines also gathered to fight against Israel: three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, in thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul, however, was still at Gilgal, and all his troops were gripped with fear.
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Judges 14:4
Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who wanted the Philistines to provide an opportunity for a confrontation. At that time, the Philistines were ruling Israel.
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1 Samuel 13 19-1 Samuel 13 23
No blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel because the Philistines had said,“ Otherwise, the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles.The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plows and mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on a cattle prod.So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hand of any of the troops who were with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.Now a Philistine garrison took control of the pass at Michmash.
