Judges 13:12

13:12 Manoah said, “Now, when your announcement comes true, ¹  how should the child be raised and what should he do?” ² 

Judges 4:5

4:5 She would sit ³  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ⁴  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ⁵ 

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ⁶  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ⁷  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ⁸  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁹  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “Now, [when] your word comes [to pass].”

² tn Heb “what will be the child’s rule [i.e., way of life] and his work?”

³ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

⁴ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁵ tn Heb “for judgment.”

⁵ tn Or “went.”

⁶ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

⁷ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

⁸ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

⁹ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.