Philistines

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• Judges 14:1 OT

  Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

• Judges 14:10 OT

  His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.

• Judges 14:19 OT

  Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s…

• Judges 15:3-5 OT

  Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.” Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two…

• Judges 15:7 OT

  Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”

• Judges 15:8 OT

  He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.

• Judges 15:15 OT

  He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

• Judges 15:16 OT

  Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.”

• Judges 16:21 OT

  The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

• Judges 16:29 OT

  Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested and leaned on them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

• Judges 16:30 OT

  Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his…

• 1 Samuel 4:1 OT

  The word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Ebenezer; and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.

• 1 Samuel 4:2 OT

  The Philistines put themselves in array against Israel. When they joined battle, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men of the army in the field.

• 1 Samuel 4:3-11 OT

  When the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let’s get the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of Shiloh and bring it to us, that it may come among us and save us out…

• 1 Samuel 5:1-4 OT

  Now the Philistines had taken God’s ark, and they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. When the people of Ashdod arose early on the next day,…

• 1 Samuel 5:6-12 OT

  But Yahweh’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its borders. When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with…

• 1 Samuel 6:1-18 OT

  Yahweh’s ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months. The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, “What shall we do with Yahweh’s ark? Show us how we should send it to its place.” They said, “If you send…

• 1 Samuel 7:7-14 OT

  When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines. The children of Israel…

• 1 Samuel 13:3 OT

  Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

• 1 Samuel 13:4 OT

  All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 13:5 OT

  The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth…

• 1 Samuel 13:17-23 OT

  The raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual; another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the…

• 1 Samuel 14:1-14 OT

  Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come! Let’s go over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father. Saul stayed in the uttermost part of…

• 1 Samuel 14:15-23 OT

  There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling. The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked;…