Hakim-hakim 6:13

6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, ¹  but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster ²  overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ³  ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Hakim-hakim 8:1

8:1 The Ephraimites said to him, “Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us ⁴  when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.

Hakim-hakim 8:3

8:3 It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” ⁵  When he said this, they calmed down. ⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 9:2

9:2 “Tell ⁷  all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want ⁸  to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” ⁹ 

Hakim-hakim 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, ¹⁰  I risked my life ¹¹  and advanced against ¹²  the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up ¹³  to fight with me today?”

Hakim-hakim 13:8

13:8 Manoah prayed to the Lord, ¹⁴  “Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God ¹⁵  to visit ¹⁶  us again, so he can teach ¹⁷  us how we should raise ¹⁸  the child who will be born.”

Hakim-hakim 15:11

15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

Hakim-hakim 16:13

16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair ¹⁹  into the fabric on the loom ²⁰  and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Hakim-hakim 16:15

16:15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ²¹  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

Hakim-hakim 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ²²  said to their kinsmen, ²³  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

[6:13]  ¹ tn Heb “But my lord.”

[6:13]  ² tn Heb “all this.”

[6:13]  ³ tn Heb “saying.”

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “by not summoning us.”

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “What was I able to do compared to you?”

[8:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “Then their spirits relaxed from against him, when he spoke this word.”

[9:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”

[9:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “What good is it to you?”

[9:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

[12:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

[12:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

[12:3]  ¹² tn Heb “crossed over to.”

[12:3]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds “and said.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “come to.”

[13:8]  ¹⁷ tc The LXX has “enlighten,” understanding the Hebrew to read וִיאִירֵנוּ (vi’irenu, “to give light”) rather than the reading of the MT, וְיוֹרֵנוּ (vÿyorenu, “to teach”).

[13:8]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “what we should do for.”

[16:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.

[16:13]  ²⁰ tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.

[16:15]  ²¹ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”

[18:14]  ²² tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

[18:14]  ²³ tn Heb “brothers.”