Judges 16:31
Good News Translation
His brothers and the rest of his family came down to get his body. They took him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had been Israel's leader for twenty years.

New Revised Standard Version
Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel twenty years.

Contemporary English Version
His brothers and the rest of his family went to Gaza and took his body back home. They buried him in his father's tomb, which was located between Zorah and Eshtaol. Samson was a leader of Israel for 20 years.

New American Bible
His kinsmen and all his father’s house went down and bore him up for burial in the grave of Manoah his father between Zorah and Eshtaol. He had judged Israel for twenty years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

his brethren

John 19:39-42 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. . . .

between Zorah

Judges 13:2,25 Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren. . . .

Joshua 19:41 And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and Hirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,

and he judged

Judges 15:20 And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Context
Samson's Vengeance and Death
30He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life. 31And 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.
Cross References
Joshua 15:33
But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,

Judges 15:20
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.

Judges 16:30
He said: Let me die with the Philistines. And when he had strongly shook the pillars, the house fell upon all the princes, and the rest of the multitude, that was there: and he killed many more at his death, than he had killed before in his life.

Judges 17:1
There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Michas.

Judges 16:30
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