²⁰ And ^(A)he judged Israel ^(B)twenty years ^(C)in the days of the Philistines.

The Birth of Samson^(A)

13 Again the children of Israel ^(B)did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them ^(C)into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

³¹ And his brothers and all his father’s household came down and took him, and brought him up and ^(A)buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. He had judged Israel ^(B)twenty years.

³² And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of ^(A)Gideon and ^(B)Barak and ^(C)Samson and ^(D)Jephthah, also of ^(E)David and ^(F)Samuel and the prophets:

⁵ For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no ^(A)razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be ^(B)a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall ^(C)begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”