²⁰ All this took about 450 years.

“After this, God gave them judges^(A) until the time of Samuel the prophet.^(B)

¹⁶ Then the Lord raised up judges,^[a](A) who saved^(B) them out of the hands of these raiders.

²⁰ And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba^(A) recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord.^(B)

²⁴ “Indeed, beginning with Samuel, all the prophets^(A) who have spoken have foretold these days.

²² Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed.

¹¹ Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal,^[a](A) Barak,^[b](B) Jephthah^(C) and Samuel,^[c](D) and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

Naomi Loses Her Husband and Sons

1 In the days when the judges ruled,^[a](A) there was a famine in the land.^(B) So a man from Bethlehem in Judah,^(C) together with his wife and two sons, went to live for a while^(D) in the country of Moab.^(E)