²⁵ I will bring a sword against you^(A) to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.

⁴³ The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

Birth of Samson, the Last Judge

13 The Israelites again did what was evil in the Lord’s sight,^(A) so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines 40 years.

⁴ Now his father and mother did not know this was from the Lord,^(A) who was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time, the Philistines were ruling over Israel.