Judges 5:18

5:18 The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; ¹ 

Naphtali charged on to the battlefields. ² 

Judges 9:17

9:17 my father fought for you; he risked his life ³  and delivered you from Midian’s power. ⁴ 

Judges 10:16

10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned ⁵  and worshiped ⁶  the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. ⁷ 

Judges 16:16

16:16 She nagged him ⁸  every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “Zebulun was a people which despised its life even unto death.”

² tn Heb “Naphtali was on the heights of the field.”

³ tc Heb “threw his life out in front,” that is, “exposed himself to danger.” The MT form מִנֶּגֶד (minneged, “from before”) should probably be read as מִנֶּגְדּוֹ (minnegdo, “from before him”); haplography of vav has likely occurred here in the MT.

⁴ tn Heb “hand.”

⁵ tn Heb “from their midst.”

⁶ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

⁷ tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).

⁷ tn Heb “forced him with her words.”

⁸ tn Heb “and his spirit was short [i.e., impatient] to the point of death.”