In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty
(Now his father and mother did not know this was from the LORD, who was seeking an occasion to move against the Philisti
So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefull