Judges 13:1 meaning and explanation
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 13:1, Berean Standard Bible
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Judges 13 opens the final major cycle of the book, and verse 1 sets out the pattern already repeated six times: Israel does evil, and the LORD hands them over to an oppressor. This time the oppressor is Philistia, and the period is forty years, a full generation.
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