Hakim-hakim 16:4

16:4 After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Hakim-hakim 15:18

15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant ¹  this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” ² 

Hakim-hakim 5:27

5:27 Between her feet he collapsed,

he fell limp ³  and was lifeless; ⁴ 

between her feet he collapsed and fell limp,

in the spot where he collapsed,

there he fell limp – violently murdered! ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 3:10

3:10 The Lord’s spirit empowered him ⁶  and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him. ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 7:13

7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ⁸  The man ⁹  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ¹⁰  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ¹¹ 

Hakim-hakim 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ¹²  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ¹³ 

Hakim-hakim 11:29

A Foolish Vow Spells Death for a Daughter

11:29 The Lord’s spirit empowered ¹⁴  Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went ¹⁵  to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites. ¹⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 6:39

6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. ¹⁷  Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” ¹⁸ 

Hakim-hakim 9:53

9:53 a woman threw an upper millstone ¹⁹  down on his ²⁰  head and shattered his skull.

Hakim-hakim 9:40

9:40 Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ²¹  ran from him. Many Shechemites ²²  fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

Hakim-hakim 19:26

19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master ²³  was staying until it became light. ²⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ²⁵  food scraps ²⁶  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ²⁷  They brought him to Jerusalem, ²⁸  where he died.

Hakim-hakim 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ²⁹  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ³⁰  them and made the Lord angry.

Hakim-hakim 7:12

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ³¹  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Hakim-hakim 16:23

Samson’s Death and Burial

16:23 The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

[15:18]  ¹ tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”

[15:18]  ² tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.

[5:27]  ³ tn Heb “he fell.” The same Hebrew expression occurs two more times in this verse.

[5:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he lay.

[5:27]  ⁵ tn Or “dead, murdered.”

[3:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “was on him.”

[3:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “his hand was strong against Cushan-Rishathaim.”

[7:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

[7:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

[7:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

[9:24]  ¹² tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

[11:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “was on.”

[11:29]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “passed through.”

[11:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “From Mizpah in Gilead he passed through [to] the Ammonites.”

[6:39]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

[6:39]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

[9:53]  ¹⁹ sn A hand mill consisted of an upper stone and larger lower stone. One would turn the upper stone with a handle to grind the grain, which was placed between the stones. An upper millstone, which was typically about two inches thick and a foot or so in diameter, probably weighed 25-30 pounds (11.4-13.6 kg). See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 268; C. F. Burney, Judges, 288.

[9:53]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Abimelech’s.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “his” in the translation in keeping with conventions of English narrative style.

[9:40]  ²¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gaal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:40]  ²² tn The word “Shechemites” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarification.

[19:26]  ²³ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[19:26]  ²⁴ tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

[1:7]  ²⁵ 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]  ²⁶ tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[1:7]  ²⁷ 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]  ²⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[2:12]  ²⁹ tn Or “fathers.”

[2:12]  ³⁰ tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

[7:12]  ³¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”