The following paragraph was taken from the article Men of Renown – Part xvii -Nimrod – Shinar his land.To read the entire article CLICK HERE. You will be safely directed to The Genesis Epic.Â
  Looking at this number (20) as a whole unit, Scripture reinforces the concept of anticipation of what God is about to do in His perfect divine order. Examine twenty as it sits alone in the pages of symbolism not attached to other numbers such as ‘three hundred and twenty,’ but just plain ‘twenty.’ Jacob waited 20 years anticipating his bride. This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. (Genesis 31:38) Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. (Genesis 31:41) Israel waited 20 years for deliverance. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. (Judges 4:3) And again, they waited 20 years for their deliverance by Samson. (Judges 15:20; 16:31) And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. The Ark waited 20 years in Kirjathjearim. And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD. (1st Samuel 7:2) Solomon waited 20 years for the completion of the building of two houses. (2nd Chronicles 8:1)
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