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

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Samson led Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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

Cross References

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:

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.

Judges 16:31
Then his brothers 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 burial plot of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

15:18-20 So little notice did the men of Judah take of their deliverer, that he was ready to perish for want of a draught of water. Thus are the greatest slights often put upon those who do the greatest services. Samson prayed to God in this distress. Those that forget to attend God their praises, may be compelled to attend him with their prayers. Past experiences of God's power and goodness, are excellent pleas in prayer for further mercy. He pleads his being exposed to God's enemies; our best pleas are taken from God's glory. The Lord sent him seasonable relief. The place of this action was, from the jaw-bone, called Lehi. And in the place thus called, God caused a fountain suddenly and seasonably to open, close by Samson. We should be more thankful for the mercy of water, did we consider how ill we can spare it. Israel submitted to him whom they had betrayed. God was with him; henceforward they were directed by him as their judge.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. a hollow place … in the jaw—"in Lehi"—taking the word as a proper noun, marking the place.

there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again—His strength, exhausted by the violent and long-continued exertion, was recruited by the refreshing draft from the spring; and it was called

En-hakkore—the "supplication well," a name which records the piety of this heroic champion.