Philistine Dominion
1140 BC, lasting 40 years traditional (Jones)
- Passage
- Judg 13:1–15:20
- Person
- Samson
- Place
- Etam
- Before
- Death of Joshua
- After
- Birth of Saul
Participants
Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.
Places
Where it happens. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.
- likely location: Etam
Every verse
All 4 verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.
Judges4 verses
- 13:1
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
- 14:4
(Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines; for at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.)
- 15:11
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
- 15:20
And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.