Judges 8:26

8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. ¹  This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, ²  purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. ³ 

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches ⁴  against the stronghold and set fire to it. ⁵  All the people ⁶  of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

Judges 14:18

14:18 On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,

“What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?”

He said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer, ⁷ 

you would not have solved my riddle!”

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ⁸  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ⁹  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹⁰ 

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ¹¹  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. ¹² 

¹ sn Seventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.

² tn Or “pendants.”

³ tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”

⁴ tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

⁶ tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.

⁷ sn Plowed with my heifer. This statement emphasizes that the Philistines had utilized a source of information which should have been off-limits to them. Heifers were used in plowing (Hos 10:11), but one typically used one’s own farm animals, not another man’s.

¹⁰ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

¹¹ tn Heb “with the bar.”

¹² tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

¹³ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”