Hakim-hakim 19:20

19:20 The old man said, “Everything is just fine! ¹  I will take care of all your needs. But don’t spend the night in the town square.”

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 ²  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ³ 

Hakim-hakim 1:6

1:6 When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Hakim-hakim 4:4

4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, ⁴  wife of Lappidoth, was ⁵  leading ⁶  Israel at that time.

Hakim-hakim 16:26

16:26 Samson said to the young man who held his hand, “Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple. ⁷  Then I can lean on them.”

Hakim-hakim 16:29

16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple ⁸  and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.

Hakim-hakim 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ⁹  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ¹⁰  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹¹ 

[19:20]  ¹ tn Heb “Peace to you.”

[9:24]  ² tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ³ 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.”

[4:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “ a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437-38 §135.b.

[4:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.

[4:4]  ⁶ tn Or “judging.”

[16:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house is founded.”

[16:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house was founded.”

[16:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”