Judges 15:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And [Samson] judged (defended) Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. [Judg. 17:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Samson led Israel for twenty years during the time of the Philistines.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, for twenty years.

Judges 15:20 Cross References

Judges 13:1

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 16:31

Then his kindred 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.

Hebrews 11:32

And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets,

Judges 13:5

for you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor is to come on his head, for the boy shall be a nazirite to God from birth. It is he who shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

Genesis 49:16

Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

1 Samuel 4:18

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.