Hakim-hakim 3:22

3:22 The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud ¹  did not pull the sword out of his belly. ² 

Hakim-hakim 13:9

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ³  God’s angelic messenger visited ⁴  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

Hakim-hakim 13:11

13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met ⁵  the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” ⁶  He said, “Yes.” ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 17:8

17:8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house. ⁸ 

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. ⁹ 

Hakim-hakim 19:10

19:10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left ¹⁰  and traveled as far as ¹¹  Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). ¹²  He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. ¹³ 

Hakim-hakim 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹⁴  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ¹⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 19:29

19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ¹⁶  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ¹⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ¹⁸  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ¹⁹ 

[3:22]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ehud) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:22]  ² tn The Hebrew text has “and he went out to the [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew word פַּרְשְׁדֹנָה (parshÿdonah) which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. The noun has the article prefixed and directive suffix. The word may be a technical architectural term, indicating the area into which Ehud moved as he left the king and began his escape. In this case Ehud is the subject of the verb “went out.” The present translation omits the clause, understanding it as an ancient variant of the first clause in v. 23. Some take the noun as “back,” understand “sword” (from the preceding clause) as the subject, and translate “the sword came out his [i.e., Eglon’s] back.” But this rendering is unlikely since the Hebrew word for “sword” (חֶרֶב, kherev) is feminine and the verb form translated “came out” (וַיֵּצֵא, vayyetse’) is masculine. (One expects agreement in gender when the subject is supplied from the preceding clause. See Ezek 33:4, 6.) See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 146-48, for discussion of the options.

[13:9]  ³ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “came to.”

[13:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “came to.”

[13:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “the woman.”

[13:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “I [am].”

[17:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “He came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, making his way.”

[18:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “and went into the midst of the people.”

[19:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he arose and went.”

[19:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to the front of.”

[19:10]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:10]  ¹³ tc Some ancient witnesses add “and his servant.”

[19:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

[19:15]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

[19:29]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

[19:29]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”

[21:2]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[21:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.