Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ¹  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ²  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 4:2-3

4:2 The Lord turned them over to ³  King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. ⁴  The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. ⁵  4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ⁶  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ⁷  and he cruelly ⁸  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Judges 4:10-11

4:10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; ⁹  Deborah went up with him as well. 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away ¹⁰  from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived ¹¹  near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

Psalms 78:60-62

78:60 He abandoned ¹²  the sanctuary at Shiloh,

the tent where he lived among men.

78:61 He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; ¹³ 

he gave the symbol of his splendor ¹⁴  into the hand of the enemy. ¹⁵ 

78:62 He delivered his people over to the sword,

and was angry with his chosen nation. ¹⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

² tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³ tn Heb “the Lord sold them into the hands of.”

⁴ tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”

⁵ tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

⁸ tn Heb “with strength.”

⁹ tn Heb “went up at his feet.”

¹⁰ tn Or “separated.”

¹¹ tn Heb “pitched his tent.”

¹² tn Or “rejected.”

¹³ tn Heb “and he gave to captivity his strength.” The expression “his strength” refers metonymically to the ark of the covenant, which was housed in the tabernacle at Shiloh.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and his splendor into the hand of an enemy.” The expression “his splendor” also refers metonymically to the ark of the covenant.

¹⁵ sn Verses 60-61 refer to the Philistines’ capture of the ark in the days of Eli (1 Sam 4:1-11).

¹⁶ tn Heb “his inheritance.”