◄ Judges 15:20 ►
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Good News Translation
Samson led Israel for twenty years while the Philistines ruled the land.

New Revised Standard Version
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Contemporary English Version
Samson was a leader of Israel for 20 years, but the Philistines were still the rulers of Israel.

New American Bible
Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Judges 13:1,5 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years. . . .

Judges 16:31 And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

Context
Samson's Revenge
…19Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass and waters issued out of it. And when he had drunk them, he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day. 20And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
Cross References
Hebrews 11:32
And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 16:31
And his brethren and all his kindred, going down took his body, and buried it between Saraa and Esthaol, in the buryingplace of his father Manue: and he judged Israel twenty years.

Judges 15:19
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