13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God 3 came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. 4 I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant 5 this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” 6
19:11 When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late 12 and the servant 13 said to his master, “Come on, let’s stop at 14 this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.”
1 tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”
2 tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”
3 tn Heb “The man of God.”
4 tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”
5 tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”
6 tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.
7 tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”
8 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”
9 tn Heb “But you are inactive.”
10 tn Or “be lazy.”
11 tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”
9 tn Heb “and the day was descending greatly.”
10 tn Or “young man.”
11 tn Heb “turn aside” (also in the following verse).