²⁰ Samson led^[a] Israel for twenty years^(A) in the days of the Philistines.

The Birth of Samson

13 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines^(A) for forty years.^(B)

³¹ Then his brothers and his father’s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah^(A) his father. He had led^[a](B) Israel twenty years.^(C)

³² And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon,^(A) Barak,^(B) Samson^(C) and Jephthah,^(D) about David^(E) and Samuel^(F) and the prophets,

⁵ You will become pregnant and have a son^(A) whose head is never to be touched by a razor^(B) because the boy is to be a Nazirite,^(C) dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead^(D) in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”