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 3:15

3:15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ⁵  raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. ⁶  The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment. ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 9:5

9:5 He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, ⁸  the seventy legitimate ⁹  sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, ¹⁰  because he hid.

Hakim-hakim 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin ¹¹  at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength ¹²  was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring ¹³  En Hakkore. ¹⁴  It remains in Lehi to this very day.

Hakim-hakim 16:12

16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, ¹⁵  Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) ¹⁶  But he tore the ropes ¹⁷  from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

[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.

[3:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord.” This has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:15]  ⁶ tn The phrase, which refers to Ehud, literally reads “bound/restricted in the right hand,” apparently a Hebrew idiom for a left-handed person. See Judg 20:16, where 700 Benjaminites are described in this way. Perhaps the Benjaminites purposely trained several of their young men to be left-handed warriors by restricting the use of the right hand from an early age so the left hand would become dominant. Left-handed men would have a distinct military advantage, especially when attacking city gates. See B. Halpern, “The Assassination of Eglon: The First Locked-Room Murder Mystery,” BRev 4 (1988): 35.

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “The Israelites sent by his hand an offering to Eglon, king of Moab.”

[9:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “his brothers.”

[9:5]  ⁹ tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “remained.”

[15:19]  ¹¹ tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

[15:19]  ¹² tn Heb “spirit.”

[15:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:19]  ¹⁴ sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”

[16:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “are upon you.”

[16:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”

[16:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the ropes) has been specified in the translation for clarity.