Samson led<n id="1" /> Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.<n id="2" />p>

He led<n id="1" /> Israel for twenty-three years, then died and was buried in Shamir.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.

The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.<n id="1" />p>

That day twenty-five thousand<n id="1" /> sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.<n id="2" />

The Israelites cried out for help to the <sc>Lordsc>, because Sisera<n id="1" /> had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,<n id="2" /> and he cruelly<n id="3" /> oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.p>

Now, announce to the men,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Whoever is shaking with fear<n id="2" /> may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" /> Twenty-two thousand men<n id="4" /> went home;<n id="5" /> ten thousand remained.

<p class="bodytext">Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.<n id="1" />

He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith &#8211; twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out!<n id="1" /> The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites.<n id="2" />p>

His brothers and all his family<n id="1" /> went down and brought him back.<n id="2" /> They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led<n id="3" /> Israel for twenty years.p>

That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.<n id="1" />