Hakim-hakim 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ¹  food scraps ²  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ³  They brought him to Jerusalem, ⁴  where he died.

Hakim-hakim 3:1

3:1 These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 6:28

6:28 When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw ⁶  the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

Hakim-hakim 14:3

14:3 But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our ⁷  people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” ⁸  But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, ⁹  because she is the right one for me.” ¹⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 21:16

21:16 The leaders ¹¹  of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? ¹²  After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

[1:7]  ² tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

[1:7]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[3:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”

[6:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “look!” The narrator uses this word to invite his audience/readers to view the scene through the eyes of the men.

[14:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.

[14:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”

[14:3]  ⁹ tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.

[14:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”

[21:16]  ¹¹ tn Or “elders.”

[21:16]  ¹² tn Heb “What should we do for the remaining ones concerning wives?”