Judges 15:20
New International Version
Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

New Living Translation
Samson judged Israel for twenty years during the period when the Philistines dominated the land.

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

Berean Standard Bible
And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

King James Bible
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

New King James Version
And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

New American Standard Bible
So he judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

NASB 1995
So he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

NASB 1977
So he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Amplified Bible
And Samson judged Israel in the days of [occupation by] the Philistines for twenty years.

Christian Standard Bible
And he judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And he judged Israel 20 years in the days of the Philistines.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Samson judged Israel for 20 years during the time of the Philistines.

Good News Translation
Samson led Israel for twenty years while the Philistines ruled the land.

International Standard Version
Samson governed Israel for twenty years during the Philistine domination.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Literal Standard Version
And he judges Israel in the days of the Philistines [for] twenty years.

Majority Standard Bible
And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

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

NET Bible
Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.

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

New Heart English Bible
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

World English Bible
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Young's Literal Translation
And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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Context
Samson's Revenge
19So 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. 20And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Cross References
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,

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.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

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 the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years…

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 15
1. Samson is denied his wife
3. He burns the Philistines' corn with foxes and firebrands
6. His wife and her father are burnt by the Philistines
8. Samson smites them hip and thigh
9. He is bound by the men of Judah, and delivered to the Philistines
14. He kills them with a jawbone
18. God makes the fountain En-hakkore for him in Lehi














(20) And he judged Israel.--Probably, as Jephthah had done, with the sort of vague prerogatives of a military hero. Why the verse is found here, as though to close the narrative (comp. Judges 12:7, &c.), and is again repeated in Judges 16:31, we cannot say. The next chapter belongs mainly to Samson's fall and humiliation. These twenty years probably fell within the contemporary judgeship of Eli.

Verse 20. - And he judged Israel, etc. See ch. 16:81. It looks as if it had been the intention to close the history of Samson with these Words, but that ch. 16. was subsequently added, possibly from other sources. Compare the close of chs. 20. and 21. of the Gospel of St. John. A possible explanation, however, of this verse being placed here is that it results from the statement in ver. 19, that Samson's spirit came again, and he revived, or came to life again, after being on the very point of death; and, adds the writer, he judged Israel after this for twenty years.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And [Samson] judged
וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֧ט (way·yiš·pōṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

Israel
יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל (yiś·rā·’êl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

for twenty
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים (‘eś·rîm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 6242: Twenty, twentieth

years
שָׁנָֽה׃ (šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

in the days
בִּימֵ֥י (bî·mê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of the Philistines.
פְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים (p̄ə·liš·tîm)
Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 6430: Philistines -- inhabitants of Philistia


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