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Judges 15:20

18 And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

19 So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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BSB
And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
KJV
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
WEB
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
ASV
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
DARBY
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
BLB
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
ÅB
Han var i tyve år dommer i Israel i filistrenes dager.
[^1]: sønder og sammen.
[^2]: kjevebens-haugen.
[^3]: den ropendes kilde.
OTB
Samson dømte Israel i tjue år i filisternes dager.
B1930
Han var i tyve år dommer i Israel i filistrenes dager.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Judges 13:1

    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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  • Judges 16:31

    Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

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  • Judges 13:5

    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

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  • Hebrews 11:32

    And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

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