Discovery BoxJudges 1:12
Context1:12 Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”
Judges 5:5
Context5:5 The mountains trembled 1 before the Lord, the God of Sinai; 2
before the Lord God of Israel.
Judges 5:13
Context5:13 Then the survivors 3 came down 4 to the mighty ones; 5
the Lord’s people came down to me 6 as 7 warriors.
Judges 16:1
Context16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. 8
Judges 16:6
Context16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” 9
[5:5] 1 tn Or “quaked.” The translation assumes the form נָזֹלּוּ (nazollu) from the root זָלַל (zalal, “to quake”; see HALOT 272 s.v. II זלל). The LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum also understood the word this way. (See Isa 63:19 and 64:2 for other occurrences of this form.) Some understand here the verb נָזַל (nazul, “to flow [with torrents of rain water]”).
[5:5] 2 tn Heb “this one of Sinai.” The phrase is a divine title, perhaps indicating that the
[5:13] 1 tn This probably refers to those who responded to the call for war. They were “survivors” of the Canaanite oppression (see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 250).
[5:13] 2 tn The translation assumes a repointing of the verb as a perfect or imperfect/preterite form of יָרַד (yarad, “to go down”). The form as pointed in the MT appears to be from רָדָה (radah, “to rule”). See GKC 188 §69.g. The same form, translated “came down,” occurs in the next line as well.
[5:13] 3 sn The expression mighty ones probably refers to the leaders of the army.
[5:13] 4 sn The speaker may be Deborah here.
[5:13] 5 tn The translation assumes the preposition ב (bet) prefixed to “warriors” has the force of “in the capacity of.” For this use of the preposition, see GKC 379 §119.i.
[16:1] 1 tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.
[16:6] 1 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”
