Judges 13:11

13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met ¹  the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” ²  He said, “Yes.” ³ 

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ⁴  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ⁵  Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 16:27

16:27 Now the temple ⁶  was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

Judges 21:7

21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? ⁷  After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

Judges 21:14

21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ⁸  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ⁹ 

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ¹⁰  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ¹¹ 

¹ tn Heb “came to.”

² tn Heb “the woman.”

³ tn Heb “I [am].”

⁴ tn Heb “and he went up.”

⁵ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

⁷ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”

¹³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “is cursed.”