Judges 4:9

4:9 She said, “I will indeed go with you. But you will not gain fame¹ on the expedition you are undertaking,² for the Lord will turn Sisera over to a woman.”³ Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Judges 4:22

4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent,⁴ and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead⁵ with the tent peg in his temple.

Judges 8:21

8:21 Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon,⁶ “Come on,⁷ you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.”⁸ So Gideon killed⁹ Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

Judges 9:36

9:36 Gaal saw the men¹⁰ and said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadows on the hills – it just looks like men.”¹¹

Judges 11:2

11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave¹² him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth,¹³ because you are another woman’s son.”

Judges 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River¹⁴ opposite Ephraim.¹⁵ Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive¹⁶ said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked¹⁷ him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Judges 14:3

14:3 But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our¹⁸ people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.”¹⁹ But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me,²⁰ because she is the right one for me.”²¹

Judges 15:18

15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant²² this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?”²³

Judges 18:3

18:3 As they approached²⁴ Micah’s house, they recognized the accent²⁵ of the young Levite. So they stopped²⁶ there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”²⁷

¹tn Or “honor.”

²tn Heb “on [account of (?)] the way which you are walking.” Another option is to translate, “due to the way you are going about this.” In this case direct reference is made to Barak’s hesitancy as the reason for his loss of glory.

³tn Heb “for into the hands of a woman the Lord will sell Sisera.”

⁴tn Heb “he went to her.”

⁵tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

⁷tn The words “to Gideon” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁸tn Or “Arise.”

⁹tn Heb “for as the man is his strength.”

¹⁰tn Heb “arose and killed.”

¹⁰tn Heb “the people” (also in vv. 38, 43, 48). These were warriors, so “men” has been used in the translation, since in ancient Israelite culture soldiers would have been exclusively males.

¹¹tn Heb “the shadow on the hills you are seeing, like men.”

¹³tn Heb “bore.”

¹⁴tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

¹⁶tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁷tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

¹⁸tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

¹⁹tn Heb “say to.”

¹⁹tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.

²⁰tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”

²¹tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.

²²tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”

²²tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”

²³tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.

²⁵tn Or “When they were near.”

²⁶tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

²⁷tn Heb “turned aside.”

²⁸tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”