Hakim-hakim 6:3

6:3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, ¹  the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. ² 

Hakim-hakim 8:8

8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. ³  The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had. ⁴ 

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. ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 19:12

19:12 But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. ⁶  We will travel on to Gibeah.”

Hakim-hakim 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ⁷ 

[6:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Whenever Israel sowed seed.”

[6:3]  ² tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east would go up, they would go up against him.” The translation assumes that וְעָלוּ (vÿ’alu) is dittographic (note the following עָלָיו, ’alayv).

[8:8]  ³ tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”

[8:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”

[13:19]  ⁵ 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.

[19:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “who are not from the sons of Israel.”

[20:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”