Judges 6:21

6:21 The Lord’s messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff.¹ Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord’s messenger then disappeared.²

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 our³ people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.”⁴ But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me,⁵ because she is the right one for me.”⁶

Judges 16:28

16:28 Samson called to the Lord, “O Master, Lord,⁷ remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge⁸ against the Philistines for my two eyes!”

Judges 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s⁹ concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.¹⁰ But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

¹tn Heb “extended the tip of the staff which was in his hand and touched the meat and unleavened bread.”

²tn Heb “went from his eyes.”

³tn 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.

⁴tn 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?”

⁵tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.

⁶tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”

⁵tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).

⁶tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”

⁷tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”