Hakim-hakim 3:21

3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ¹  belly.

Hakim-hakim 3:25

3:25 They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. ²  Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor! ³ 

Hakim-hakim 5:19

5:19 Kings came, they fought;

the kings of Canaan fought,

at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, ⁴ 

but ⁵  they took no silver as plunder.

Hakim-hakim 6:20

6:20 God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, ⁶  and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed. ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 8:16

8:16 He seized the leaders ⁸  of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them. ⁹ 

Hakim-hakim 9:43

9:43 he took his men ¹⁰  and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, ¹¹  he attacked and struck them down. ¹² 

Hakim-hakim 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked, ¹³  the leaders ¹⁴  of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back ¹⁵  from the land of Tob.

Hakim-hakim 11:15

11:15 and said to him, “This is what Jephthah says, ‘Israel did not steal ¹⁶  the land of Moab and the land of the Ammonites.

Hakim-hakim 13:19

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. ¹⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ¹⁸  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ¹⁹  Now get her for my wife.”

Hakim-hakim 14:8

14:8 Some time later, when he went back to marry ²⁰  her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw ²¹  a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

Hakim-hakim 16:12

16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, ²²  Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) ²³  But he tore the ropes ²⁴  from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

Hakim-hakim 17:4

17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she ²⁵  took two hundred pieces of silver ²⁶  to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. ²⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 18:18

18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ²⁸  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Hakim-hakim 18:20

18:20 The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group. ²⁹ 

Hakim-hakim 18:24

18:24 He said, “You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, ‘What do you want?’” ³⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 19:28-29

19:28 He said to her, “Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home. ³¹  19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ³²  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ³³ 

[3:21]  ¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:25]  ² tn The words “the doors” are supplied.

[3:25]  ³ tn Heb “See, their master, fallen to the ground, dead.”

[5:19]  ⁴ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[5:19]  ⁵ tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.

[6:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “Take the meat…and put [it] on this rock.”

[6:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he did so.”

[8:16]  ⁸ tn Heb “elders.”

[8:16]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the reading of several ancient versions (LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) in assuming the form וַיָּדָשׁ (vayyadash) from the verb דּוֹשׁ (dosh, “thresh”) as in v. 7. The MT reads instead the form וַיֹּדַע (vayyoda’, “make known”), a Hiphil form of יָדַע (yadah). In this case one could translate, “he used them [i.e., the thorns and briers] to teach the men of Succoth a lesson.”

[9:43]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his people.”

[9:43]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

[9:43]  ¹² tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

[11:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

[11:5]  ¹⁴ tn Or “elders.”

[11:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

[11:15]  ¹⁶ tn Or “take”; or “seize.”

[13:19]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

[14:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[14:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

[14:8]  ²⁰ tn Heb “get.”

[14:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “and look, a swarm of bees…”

[16:12]  ²² tn Heb “are upon you.”

[16:12]  ²³ tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”

[16:12]  ²⁴ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the ropes) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.

[17:4]  ²⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:4]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”

[18:18]  ²⁸ tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

[18:20]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and went into the midst of the people.”

[18:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “What is this you say to me, ‘What to you?’”

[19:28]  ³¹ tn Heb “And the man took her on the donkey and arose and went to his place.”

[19:29]  ³² tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

[19:29]  ³³ tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”