Acts 13:20
New International Version
All this took about 450 years. “After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

New Living Translation
All this took about 450 years. “After that, God gave them judges to rule until the time of Samuel the prophet.

English Standard Version
All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Berean Standard Bible
All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Berean Literal Bible
during four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

King James Bible
And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

New King James Version
“After that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

New American Standard Bible
After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

NASB 1995
“After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

NASB 1977
“And after these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Legacy Standard Bible
After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Amplified Bible
After this, He gave them judges until the prophet Samuel.

Christian Standard Bible
This all took about 450 years. After this, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This all took about 450 years. After this, He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

American Standard Version
and after these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For four hundred fifty years he gave them Judges until Samuel The Prophet.

Contemporary English Version
All this happened in about 450 years. Then God gave our people judges until the time of the prophet Samuel,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As it were, after four hundred and fifty years: and after these things, he gave unto them judges, until Samuel the prophet.

English Revised Version
and after these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He did all this in about four hundred and fifty years. "After that he gave his people judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.

Good News Translation
All of this took about 450 years. "After this he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.

International Standard Version
for about 450 years. "After that, he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.

Literal Standard Version
And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges—until Samuel the prophet;

Majority Standard Bible
All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

New American Bible
at the end of about four hundred and fifty years. After these things he provided judges up to Samuel [the] prophet.

NET Bible
All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

New Revised Standard Version
for about four hundred fifty years. After that he gave them judges until the time of the prophet Samuel.

New Heart English Bible
All this took about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things he gave them judges, until Samuel the prophet.

Webster's Bible Translation
And after that he gave to them judges, about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

Weymouth New Testament
and afterwards He gave them judges down to the time of the Prophet Samuel.

World English Bible
After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

Young's Literal Translation
'And after these things, about four hundred and fifty years, He gave judges -- till Samuel the prophet;

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Context
In Pisidian Antioch
19And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance. 20All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet. 21Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.…

Cross References
Judges 2:16
Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.

1 Samuel 3:20
So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

Acts 3:24
Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.


Treasury of Scripture

And after that he gave to them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

he gave.

Judges 2:16
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

Judges 3:10
And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.

Ruth 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

until.

1 Samuel 3:20
And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.

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Acts 13
1. Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles.
6. Of Sergius Paulus, and Elymas the sorcerer.
13. Paul preaches at Antioch that Jesus is Christ.
42. The Gentiles believe;
44. but the Jews talked abusively against Paul,
46. whereupon they turn to the Gentiles, of whom many believe.
50. The Jews raise a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, who go to Iconium.














(20) After that he gave unto them judges . . .--The statement in the text, assigning 450 years to the period of the judges, and apparently reckoning that period from the distribution of the conquered territory, is at variance with that in 1Kings 6:1, which gives 480 years as the period intervening between the Exodus and the building of the temple. The better MSS., however, give a different reading--"He gave their land to them as an inheritance, about 450 years, and after these things he gave unto them judges," the 450 years in this case being referred to the interval between the choice of "our fathers," which may be reckoned from the birth of Isaac (B.C. 1897 according to the received chronology) to the distribution of the conquered country in B.C. 1444. So far as any great discrepancy is concerned, this is a sufficient explanation, but what has been said before as to the general tendency in a discourse of this kind to rest in round numbers, has also to be remembered. (See Note on Acts 7:6.) Josephus (Ant. viii. 3, ? 1) gives 592 years from the Exodus to the building of Solomon's Temple. Of this period sixty-five years were occupied by the wanderings in the wilderness and the conquest under Joshua, eighty-four by the reigns of Saul and David and the first four years of Solomon, leaving 443 years for the period of the Judges. This agrees, it will be seen, sufficiently with the Received text in this passage, but leaves the discrepancy with 1Kings 6:1 unexplained. There would of course, be nothing strange in St. Paul's following the same traditional chronology as Josephus, even where it differed from that of the present Hebrew text of the Old Testament.



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Greek
[All this took about]
ὡς (hōs)
Adverb
Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner.

450 {}
τετρακοσίοις (tetrakosiois)
Adjective - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 5071: Four hundred. Plural from tessares and hekaton; four hundred.

years.
ἔτεσιν (etesin)
Noun - Dative Neuter Plural
Strong's 2094: A year. Apparently a primary word; a year.

After
μετὰ (meta)
Preposition
Strong's 3326: (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives.

this,
ταῦτα (tauta)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

[God] gave [them]
ἔδωκεν (edōken)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

judges
κριτὰς (kritas)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2923: A judge, magistrate, ruler. From krino; a judge.

until the time
ἕως (heōs)
Preposition
Strong's 2193: A conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until.

of Samuel
Σαμουὴλ (Samouēl)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 4545: Samuel, a Hebrew prophet. Of Hebrew origin; Samuel, an Israelite.

the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

prophet.
προφήτου (prophētou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 4396: From a compound of pro and phemi; a foreteller; by analogy, an inspired speaker; by extension, a poet.


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