Judges 3:20

3:20 When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated ¹  upper room all by himself. Ehud said, “I have a message from God ²  for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat, ³ 

Judges 6:19

6:19 Gideon went and prepared a young goat, ⁴  along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food ⁵  to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

Judges 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ⁶  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ⁷  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Judges 15:14

15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered ⁸  him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in ⁹  fire, and they ¹⁰  melted away from his hands.

Judges 16:2

16:2 The Gazites were told, ¹¹  “Samson has come here!” So they surrounded the town ¹²  and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave. ¹³  They relaxed ¹⁴  all night, thinking, ¹⁵  “He will not leave ¹⁶  until morning comes; ¹⁷  then we will kill him!”

Judges 19:16

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ¹⁸  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ¹⁹ 

Judges 19:23

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

Judges 21:8

21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ²⁰ 

¹ tn Or “cool.” This probably refers to a room with latticed windows which allowed the breeze to pass through. See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 144.

² tn Heb “word of [i.e., from] God.”

³ tn Or “throne.”

⁴ tn Heb “a kid from among the goats.”

⁵ tn The words “the food” are not in the Hebrew text (an implied direct object). They are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Heb “The man of God.”

⁸ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “rushed on.”

¹¹ tn Heb “burned with.”

¹² tn Heb “his bonds.”

¹³ tc Heb “To the Gazites, saying.” A verb is missing from the MT; some ancient Greek witnesses add “it was reported.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “And they surrounded.” The rest of the verse suggests that “the town” is the object, not “the house.” Though the Gazites knew Samson was in the town, apparently they did not know exactly where he had gone. Otherwise, they would could have just gone into or surrounded the house and would not have needed to post guards at the city gate.

¹⁵ tn Heb “and they lay in wait for him all night in the city gate.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “were silent.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “saying.”

¹⁸ tn The words “He will not leave” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁹ tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”