Deuteronomy 28:13
13And the Lord will make you athe head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them,Deuteronomy 28:47-48
47 bBecause you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he cwill put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.Judges 13:1
The Birth of Samson
1And the people of Israel again ddid what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them einto the hand of the Philistines for forty years.Judges 14:4
4His father and mother did not know that it was ffrom the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. gAt that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.Psalms 106:41
41he hgave them into the hand of the nations,so that those who hated them ruled over them.
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