He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
KJV
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died,.... He did not take upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully discharged it, and died in honour:
and was buried in Shamir; the place where he executed his office. It is said (t), that in the first year of Tola, the son of Puah, Priamus reigned in Troy.
(t) Juchasin, fol. 136. 1.
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