25 I will bring a sword against you(A) to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

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25 And I will bring the sword(A) on you to avenge(B) the breaking of the covenant. When you withdraw into your cities, I will send a plague(C) among you, and you will be given into enemy hands.

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43 The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

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43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.(A)

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Birth of Samson

13 The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord’s sight,(A) so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines forty years.

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The Birth of Samson

13 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines(A) for forty years.(B)

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Now his father and mother did not know this was from the Lord,(A) who wanted the Philistines to provide an opportunity for a confrontation.[a] At that time, the Philistines were ruling Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:4 for a confrontation supplied for clarity

(His parents did not know that this was from the Lord,(A) who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines;(B) for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)(C)

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40 Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against his people,
and he abhorred his own inheritance.(A)
41 He handed them over to the nations;
those who hated them ruled over them.(B)
42 Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were subdued under their power.(C)

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40 Therefore the Lord was angry(A) with his people
    and abhorred his inheritance.(B)
41 He gave them into the hands(C) of the nations,
    and their foes ruled over them.
42 Their enemies oppressed(D) them
    and subjected them to their power.

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