9:30 When Zebul, the city commissioner, heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he was furious. 1
16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived 2 me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”
1 tn Heb “his anger burned.”
2 tn See Gen 31:7; Exod 8:29 [8:25 HT]; Job 13:9; Isa 44:20; Jer 9:4 for other uses of this Hebrew word (II תָּלַל, talal), which also occurs in v. 13.
3 tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.
4 tn Or “felt sorry for.”
5 tn Heb “cut off one.”