Judges 6:37

6:37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it ¹  is dry, then I will be sure ²  that you will use me to deliver Israel, ³  as you promised.”

Judges 6:39

6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. ⁴  Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” ⁵ 

Judges 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ⁶  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ⁷ 

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ⁸  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “all the ground.”

² tn Or “know.”

³ tn Heb “you will deliver Israel by my hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

⁵ tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

⁷ tn Heb “their brother.”

⁸ tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

¹¹ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”