16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. 1
11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father. 2
1 tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.
2 tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”