Judges 7:12

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 9:7

Jotham’s Parable

9:7 When Jotham heard the news, ²  he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, ³  “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!

Judges 11:29

A Foolish Vow Spells Death for a Daughter

11:29 The Lord’s spirit empowered ⁴  Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went ⁵  to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites. ⁶ 

Judges 16:19

16:19 She made him go to sleep on her lap ⁷  and then called a man in to shave off ⁸  the seven braids of his hair. ⁹  She made him vulnerable ¹⁰  and his strength left him.

¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”

² tn Heb “And they reported to Jotham.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

³ tn Heb “He lifted his voice and called and said to them.”

³ tn Heb “was on.”

⁴ tn Heb “passed through.”

⁵ tn Heb “From Mizpah in Gilead he passed through [to] the Ammonites.”

⁴ tn Heb “on her knees.” The expression is probably euphemistic for sexual intercourse. See HALOT 160-61 s.v. בֶּרֶךְ.

⁵ tn Heb “she called for a man and she shaved off.” The point seems to be that Delilah acted through the instrumentality of the man. See J. A. Soggin, Judges (OTL), 254.

⁶ tn Heb “head.” By metonymy the hair of his head is meant.

⁷ tn Heb “She began to humiliate him.” Rather than referring to some specific insulting action on Delilah’s part after Samson’s hair was shaved off, this statement probably means that she, through the devious actions just described, began the process of Samson’s humiliation which culminates in the following verses.