Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ¹  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 15:15

15:15 He happened to see ²  a solid ³  jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it ⁴  and struck down ⁵  a thousand men.

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ⁶  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ⁷ 

Judges 16:1

Samson’s Downfall

16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. ⁸ 

Judges 17:1

Micah Makes His Own Religion

17:1 There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

Judges 17:1

Micah Makes His Own Religion

17:1 There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

Zechariah 4:6

4:6 Therefore he told me, “These signify the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,’ ⁹  says the Lord who rules over all.”

Zechariah 4:1

Vision Five: The Menorah

4:1 The angelic messenger ¹⁰  who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.

Zechariah 3:8

3:8 Listen now, Joshua the high priest, both you and your colleagues who are sitting before you, all of you ¹¹  are a symbol that I am about to introduce my servant, the Branch. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

² tn Heb “he found.”

³ tn Heb “fresh,” i.e., not decayed and brittle.

⁴ tn Heb “he reached out his hand and took it.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds “with it.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

⁷ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”

⁸ tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.

⁹ sn It is premature to understand the Spirit here as the Holy Spirit (the third Person of the Trinity), though the OT prepares the way for that NT revelation (cf. Gen 1:2; Exod 23:3; 31:3; Num 11:17-29; Judg 3:10; 6:34; 2 Kgs 2:9, 15, 16; Ezek 2:2; 3:12; 11:1, 5).

¹⁰ tn See the note on the expression “angelic messenger” in 1:9.

¹¹ tn Heb “these men.” The cleansing of Joshua and his elevation to enhanced leadership as a priest signify the coming of the messianic age.

¹² sn The collocation of servant and branch gives double significance to the messianic meaning of the passage (cf. Isa 41:8, 9; 42:1, 19; 43:10; 44:1, 2, 21; Ps 132:17; Jer 23:5; 33:15).