Talmud zu Schoftim 16:28

It is written²⁸⁹Jud. 13:25.: “The spirit of the Eternal started to ring in him in the encampment of Dan, between Ṣor‘a and Eshtaol.” Two Amoraïm. One said, when the holy spirit was resting on him, his steps were as from Ṣor‘a to Eshtaol. The other said, when the holy spirit was resting on him, his hairs were tolling like a bell and their sound went as from Ṣor‘a to Eshtaol. “The Eternal blessed him²⁹⁰Jud. 13:24.”. Rebbi Huna in the name of Rebbi Yose: That his sex life was that of anybody²⁹¹In the Babli, 10a, that his sex organ was of normal size even though otherwise he was a giant.. “I shall revenge one revenge of my two eyes from the Philistines.²⁹²Jud. 16:28. The statement is also in Num. rabba 9(24).” Rebbi Aḥa said, he said before Him: Master of the Universe! Give me the reward of one of my eyes in this world and the reward of the other eye be prepared for me in the World to Come. One verse says²⁹³This should be Jud. 15:20, but, as already Tosaphot (Šabbat 55b, s. v. מעבירם) noted, all texts and versions have “twenty years”. David Qimḥi, following the reading of the parallel in Num. rabba 14(21), in his commentary to Jud. 16:31, reads “twenty years” in the text here and quotes R. Aḥa as explanation of the duplication of the notices in 15:20, 16:31. While our text here is confirmed by the Rome ms., “40 years”, Qimḥi’s reading as supported by Num. rabba (whose first part probably is Provençal) can be taken as testimony for the Provençal text.: “He judged Israel for forty years.” And another verse says²⁹⁴Jud. 16:31.: “He had judged Israel for twenty years.” Rebbi Aḥa said, this teaches that the Philistines were afraid of him twenty years after his death as they were afraid of him during his lifetime.