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Judges 15:20

18 And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

19 But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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

    And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

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  • Judges 16:31

    Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

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  • Judges 13:5

    For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

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  • Hebrews 11:32

    And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

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