Judges 15:20

The Dtc. editor's formula, usually at the close of a judge's history, comes curiously here before the end; perhaps because the editor felt that the end was not a suitable place for a statement of this kind. The words now standing in Judges 16:31 b are merely a briefer repetition of the present verse, and may have been added by some later hand. The alternative is to suppose that the Dtc. editor closed the story of Samson here, and left out ch. 16 as contributing nothing to his purpose; ch. 16 was afterwards restored to its place, with the concluding formula (so Budde, Moore, Nowack). See Introduction § 2 C.

twenty years out of the forty, Judges 13:1. In the Rabbinic schools it was proposed to correct the reading here to forty, Talm. Jer. SotaJudges 1:8.