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

The Birth of Samson

13 And the people of Israel again ^(A)did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them ^(B)into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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

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

⁵ for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. ^(A)No 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 save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”