Judges 15:11

Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?" He said to them, "I have only done to them what they have done to me."

Judges 13:1

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 14:4

Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord's doing, because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

Deuteronomy 28:13

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48

"Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

Psalm 106:40-42

So the Lord was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.

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Summary

Judges 15:11

Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

Philistines

General references

Deuteronomy 28:43

Bible References

Philistines

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

General references

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.