Judges 15:20

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19Then the Lord opened a great tooth in the jaw of the ass, and waters issued out of it. And when he had drank them he refreshed his spirit, and recovered his strength. Therefore the name of that place was called, The Spring of him that invoked from the jawbone, until this present day.

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Cross References

Judges 13:1And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.

Judges 16:31And 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.

Hebrews 11:32And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

Matthew Henry on Judges 15:19-20

Samson's Thirst Relieved. ( b. c. 1140.) 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 a 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. 20 And he judged Israel in the days of the… Read the whole commentary →

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