By now, the words this chapter begins with are all too familiar. Whenever God's people strayed from worshiping the true God to serving idols, God let them be oppressed by some enemy. In this case, it is the Philistines who God used to discipline his people for forty years (Ruth 13:1).
CHAPTER XIII _The Israelites corrupt themselves, abut are delivered into the_ _hands of the Philistines forty years_, 1. _An Angel appears to the wife of Manoah, foretells the birth of_ _her son,...
The Philistines have been mentioned as oppressors of Israel in Judges 3:31; Judges 10:7, Judges 10:11; and the Israelite worship of the gods of the Philistines is spoken of in...
6. SIXTH DECLENSION: UNDER THE PHILISTINES AND SAMSON CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Israel delivered to the Philistines (Judges 13:1)_ 2. Manoah and his wife (Judges 13:2) 3. Samson born (Judges 13:24) The sixt...
THE BIRTH OF SAMSON. Judges 13:1. D's usual introduction. Judges 13:2. Zorah (p. 31) is now Sar-' a, 800 ft. above the valley of Sorek (Wady es-Surâ r), 17 m. W. of Jerusalem. In Joshua 15:33 and...
CHILDREN. sons. DID EVIL AGAIN. Hebrew added to commit. EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. FORTY YEARS. 1120-1080....
_Samson's birth_ 1 _.the Philistines_ The Dtc. compiler treats the age of Samson on the principle of Judges 3:7 f., which has been illustrated in the foregoing narratives (Judges 3:7-15; Judges 4:1-3;...
_THE ISRAELITES ARE OPPRESSED FORTY YEARS BY THE PHILISTINES: AN ANGEL APPEARS TO THE WIFE OF MANOAH, AND PROMISES HER A SON: HE APPEARS AGAIN TO THE HUSBAND AND WIFE, AND ASCENDS, IN THE MIDST OF THE...
Samson of Dan Judges 13:1 to Judges 16:31 _The Birth of Samson Judges 13:1-25_ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Phi...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL AGAIN IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD; AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND OF THE PHILISTINES FORTY YEARS._ The Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistine...
THE STORY OF SAMSON Except for Judges 15:20 and Judges 16:31, Samson has none of the characteristics of a Judge. His exploits against the Philistines are all solitary, and though they doubtless afford...
The Philistine Oppression: see on Judges 3:8. 2-25. The Birth and Parentage of Samson....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 13 In total, there were 12 judges in the book called Judges. Samson was the last one. The story about him shows that matters had got much worse. Peo...
DID EVIL AGAIN. — Judges 3:7; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1; Judges 10:6. OF THE PHILISTINES. — Hitherto the nation has only been cursorily mentioned ...
וַ יֹּסִ֨פוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַ עֲשֹׂ֥ות...
THE ANGEL IN THE FIELD Judges 13:1 IN our ignorance not in our knowledge, in our blindness not in our light, we call nature secular and think of the ordinary course of events as a series of cold oper...
THE PROMISE OF A NAZARITE CHAMPION Judges 13:1 The secret of Samson's strength was a puzzle to his contemporaries. Even Delilah could not account for it, Judges 16:5. Clearly, then, it did not depend...
Once again we read that "Israel again did that which was evil," and once again they were delivered to discipline at the hands of their enemies. In this connection we have one of the strangest stories...
Years. It is not clear whence this sixth and longest servitude is to be dated. If it terminated at the death of Samson, when the Philistines lost their chief nobility, &c., we must allow that the Isra...
CONTENTS This chapter commenceth with another sad account of Israel's transgression, and the consequent punishment from the Lord. We have in it also, the relation of the birth of Samson, and the mess...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
Samson, as a type, sets before us the principle of Nazariteship, entire separation to God, the source of strength in conflict with our enemies, looked at as enemies who seek to gain the upper hand amo...
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD,.... Committed idolatry, which was the evil they were prone unto, and were frequently guilty of: AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO THE HAND...
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. Ver. 1. _And the children of Israel did evil again in the...
Jdg. 13, 14, 15. _The History of Samson_. Samson was charmed with the daughters of the uncircumcised Philistines, and, as it were, bewitched with them. These daughters represent those lusts, or object...
_The children of Israel did evil again_ That is, fell into idolatry, not, it seems, after the death of Abdon, the last judge, but in the days of the former judges. _The Lord delivered them into the ha...
1 Israel is in the hand of the Philistines. 2 An Angel appeareth to Manoahs wife. 8 The Angel appeareth to Manoah. 15 Manoahs sacrifice, whereby the Angel is discouered. 24 Samson is borne. 1 AND...
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ANGEL...
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, they fell back into their former ways of idolatry, adding to the transgression of their fathers; AND THE LORD DELIVERED THEM INTO TH...
AMSON'S BIRTH PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED (vv. 1-25) After this, because of Israel's further disobedience, the Lord brought them under bondage to the Philistines for forty long years (v. 1). In this case...
DID EVIL...: _ Heb._ added to commit, etc...
1-7 Israel did evil: then God delivered them again into the hands of the Philistines. When Israel was in this distress, Samson was born. His parents had been long childless. Many eminent persons were...
JUDGES CHAPTER 13 The Philistines again oppress Israel, JUDGES 13:1. An angel appeareth to Manoah's wife, promising her a son that should be a Nazarite, and deliver Israel, JUDGES 13:2. She informs he...
Judges 13:1 Again H3254 (H8686) children H1121 Israel H3478 did H6213 (H8800) evil H7451 sight H5869 LORD...
SAMSON THE DELIVERER God's Sixth Lesson - the Rise of the Philistines - God Raises Up Samson (Judges 13:1 to Judges 16:31). The story of Samson is one of the most remarkable in the Bible. It demonstr...
Judges 13:16 I. We must first ask what principles, regarding the way in which God works deliverance for man, were taught by Samson. (1) The first principle impressed on the minds of his contemporaries...
CONTENTS: Parents of Samson and Samson's birth. CHARACTERS: God, Angel (Jesus), Holy Spirit, Manoah. CONCLUSION: A promise is given to try our faith and a precept to try our obedience for God requir...
Judges 13:1. _Forty years._ There are no exact dates of the commencement and termination of this servitude. Therefore to harmonize it with the four hundred and eighty years from the going out of Egypt...
_Manoah; and his wife._ THE ANGELIC APPEARANCES TO MANOAH AND HIS WIFE I. The unknown visitor. Manoah’s wife was just the woman to be visited by an angel--bold, energetic, large-hearted, believing....
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 13:1__ Samson was the twelfth and last judge. He lived around the beginning of the eleventh century B.C., about 50 years before Saul became king. His physical strength was unpara...
NEW OPPRESSORS AND A NEW DELIVERER In fixing the date at which Samson appeared, it must be remembered that great diversity of opinion exists, as to the exact chronology of the whole period between the...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 13:1 DID EVIL AGAIN. It by no means follows from this phrase that this chapter is in direct chronological sequence to the preceding The scene is shifted to the tribe of Dan, and to...
[Now, again] The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. There was a certain man from Zorah, he was o...
1 Samuel 12:9; Jeremiah 13:23; Judges 10:6; Judges 2:11; Judges 3:7;...
Did evil — That is, fell into idolatry, not after the death of Abdon the last judge, but in the days of the former judges. Forty years — To be computed, not from Abdon's death, but before that time. A...