5:25 He asked for water,
and she gave him milk;
in a bowl fit for a king, 1
she served him curds.
5:26 Her left 2 hand reached for the tent peg,
her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.
She “hammered” 3 Sisera,
she shattered his skull, 4
she smashed his head, 5
she drove the tent peg through his temple. 6
24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, 9 and the Lord had blessed him 10 in everything.
41:17 The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched from thirst.
I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; 13
I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.
4:7 A Samaritan woman 14 came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water 15 to drink.”
1 tn Or “for mighty ones.”
2 tn The adjective “left” is interpretive, based on the context. Note that the next line pictures Jael holding the hammer with her right hand.
3 tn The verb used here is from the same root as the noun “hammer” in the preceding line.
4 tn Or “head.”
5 tn The phrase “his head” (an implied direct object) is supplied in the translation for clarification.
6 tn Heb “she pierced his temple.”
3 tn Heb “the spring of water.”
4 tn Heb “and it will be.”
4 tn Heb “days.”
5 tn Heb “Abraham.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “This is my covenant that you must keep between me and you and your descendants after you.”
6 sn For a discussion of male circumcision as the sign of the covenant in this passage see M. V. Fox, “The Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Light of the Priestly ‘ot Etiologies,” RB 81 (1974): 557-96.
6 tn Heb “will answer them” (so ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
7 tn Grk “a woman from Samaria.” According to BDAG 912 s.v. Σαμάρεια, the prepositional phrase is to be translated as a simple attributive: “γυνὴ ἐκ τῆς Σαμαρείας a Samaritan woman J 4:7.”
8 tn The phrase “some water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).