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Judges 15:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines. "
Judges 15:20
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18 He was very thirsty, and called on the LORD and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived. Therefore its name was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
20 He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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Judges 15:1
"But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, “I will go in to my wife’s room.” But her father wouldn’t allow him to go in."
Judges 15:2
"Her father said, “I most certainly thought that you utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion. Isn’t her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead.”"
Judges 15:3
"Samson said to them, “This time I will be blameless in the case of the Philistines when I harm them.”"
Judges 15:4
"Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned tail to tail, and put a torch in the middle between every two tails."
Judges 15:5
"When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves."
Judges 15:6
"Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire."
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