Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.
New American Standard Bible
So
King James Version
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Holman 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.
A Conservative Version
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
American Standard Version
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Amplified
And Samson judged Israel in the days of [occupation by] the Philistines for twenty years.
Darby Translation
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Julia Smith Translation
And he will judge Israel in the days of Philisteim twenty years.
King James 2000
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he judged Israel in the days of [the] Philistines twenty years.
Modern King James verseion
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
NET Bible
Samson led Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.
New Heart English Bible
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
The Emphasized Bible
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
Webster
And he judged Israel, in the days of the Philistines, twenty years.
World English Bible
He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Youngs Literal Translation
And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Judges 15:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Samson Defeats The Philistines
19 Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day. 20 And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.
Cross References
Judges 13:1
And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 16:31
Then his brothers and his father's people came down and took him up and put his body to rest in the earth between Zorah and Eshtaol in the resting-place of Manoah his father. And he had been judge of Israel for twenty years.
Judges 13:5
For you are with child and will give birth to a son; his hair is never to be cut, for the child is to be separate to God from his birth; and he will take up the work of freeing Israel from the hands of the Philistines.
Hebrews 11:32
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets: