Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
WEB
And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
YLT
And he judgeth Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
DBT
And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJudges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
- Author
- Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
- Date
- Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy