Hakim-hakim 5:31

5:31 May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!

But may those who love you shine

like the rising sun at its brightest!” ¹ 

And the land had rest for forty years.

Hakim-hakim 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. ²  For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” ³ 

Hakim-hakim 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁴  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

[5:31]  ¹ tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

[11:37]  ² tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

[11:37]  ³ tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

[13:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”