Judg 2:14-18, 3:8, 4:3, 6:3-6, 1Sa 13:5-6, 19-20 | ESV | STEP | So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel , and he gave them over to plunderers , who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies , so that they could no longer withstand their enemies .

Judges 2:14-18

14 ^aSo the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he ^bgave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. ^cAnd he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, ^dso that they could no longer withstand their enemies. 15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, ^eand as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

The Lord Raises Up Judges

16 ^fThen the Lord raised up judges, ^gwho saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for ^hthey whored after other gods and bowed down to them. ⁱThey soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, ^jthe Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. ^kFor the Lord was moved to pity by ^ltheir groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.

Judges 3:8

8 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, ^mand he sold them into the hand of ⁿCushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

Judges 4:3

3 Then the people of Israel ^ocried out to the Lord for help, for he had ^p900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

Judges 6:3-6

3 For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and ^qthe Amalekites and ^rthe people of the East would come up against them. 4 They would encamp against them ^sand devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey. 5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come ^tlike locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in. 6 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel ^ucried out for help to the Lord.

1 Samuel 13:5-6

5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops ^vlike the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of ^wBeth-aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves ^xin caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,

1 Samuel 13:19-20

19 ^yNow there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.” 20 But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle, ^{▼▼Septuagint; Hebrew plowshare}