Hakim-hakim 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. ¹  He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Hakim-hakim 14:17

14:17 She cried on his shoulder ²  until the party was almost over. ³  Finally, on the seventh day, he told her because she had nagged him so much. ⁴  Then she told the young men the solution to the riddle. ⁵ 

[13:23]  ¹ tn Heb “our hand.”

[14:17]  ² tn Heb “on him.”

[14:17]  ³ tn Heb “the seven days [during] which they held the party.” This does not mean she cried for the entire seven days; v. 15 indicates otherwise. She cried for the remainder of the seven day period, beginning on the fourth day.

[14:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “because she forced him.”

[14:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “she told the riddle to the sons of her people.”