16 “Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.+

16 So Jehovah would raise up judges,+ and they would save them out of the hand of their pillagers.+

13 And the sons of Israel engaged again in doing what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes,+ so that Jehovah gave them into the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines+ for forty years.

5 For, look! you will be pregnant,* and you will certainly give birth to a son, and no razor should come upon his head,+ because a Nazʹi·rite+ of God is what the child* will become on leaving the belly;+ and he it is who will take the lead in saving Israel out of the hand of the Phi·lisʹtines.”+

31 Later his brothers and all the household of his father came on down and lifted him up and brought him up and buried him between Zoʹrah+ and Eshʹta·ol+ in the burial place of Ma·noʹah+ his father. As for him, he had judged Israel twenty years.+

27 For this you gave them into the hand of their adversaries,+ who kept causing them distress;+ but in the time of their distress they would cry out to you,+ and you yourself would hear from the very heavens;+ and in accord with your abundant mercy+ you would give them saviors+ who would save them out of the hand of their adversaries.+

32 And what more shall I say? For the time will fail me if I go on to relate about Gidʹe·on,+ Baʹrak,+ Samson,+ Jephʹthah,+ David+ as well as Samuel+ and the [other] prophets,+