Judges 13:13

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13:13 The Lord’s messenger told¹ Manoah, “Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her.²

Judges 13:24

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13:24 Manoah’s wife³ gave birth to a son and named him Samson.⁴ The child grew and the Lord empowered⁵ him.

Judges 14:10

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14:10 Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage.⁶ Samson hosted a party⁷ there, for this was customary for bridegrooms⁸ to do.

Judges 13:3

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13:3 The Lord’s angelic⁹ messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You¹⁰ are infertile and childless,¹¹ but you will conceive and have a son.

Judges 13:9-11

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13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer.¹² God’s angelic messenger visited¹³ the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her. 13:10 The woman ran at once and told her husband,¹⁴ “Come quickly,¹⁵ the man who visited¹⁶ me the other day has appeared to me!” 13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met¹⁷ the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”¹⁸ He said, “Yes.”¹⁹

Judges 19:26-27

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19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master²⁰ was staying until it became light.²¹ 19:27 When her master²² got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Judges 20:4

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20:4 The Levite,²³ the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in²⁴ Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin²⁵ to spend the night.

Judges 11:2

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11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave²⁶ him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth,²⁷ because you are another woman’s son.”

Judges 13:6

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13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God²⁸ came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome.²⁹ I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

[13:13] ¹tn Or “said to.”

[13:13] ²tn Heb “To everything I said to the woman she should pay attention.” The Hebrew word order emphasizes “to everything,” probably because Manoah’s wife did not tell her husband everything the angel had said to her (cf. vv. 3-5 with v. 7). If she had, Manoah probably would not have been so confused about the child’s mission.

[13:24] ³tn Heb “the woman.” For clarity this has been specified in the translation as “Manoah’s wife.”

[13:24] ⁴tn The name appears to mean “sun-like” or “solar.”

[13:24] ⁵tn Traditionally, “blessed.”

[14:10] ⁵tn Heb “And his father went down to the woman.”

[14:10] ⁶tn Or “[wedding] feast.”

[14:10] ⁷tn Heb “the young men.”

[13:3] ⁷tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive (also in vv. 6, 9).

[13:3] ⁸tn Heb “Look, you.”

[13:3] ⁹tn Heb “and have not given birth.”

[13:9] ⁹tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9] ¹⁰tn Heb “came to.”

[13:10] ¹¹tn Heb “and said to him.” This phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons.

[13:10] ¹²tn Heb “Look.”

[13:10] ¹³tn Heb “came to.”

[13:11] ¹³tn Heb “came to.”

[13:11] ¹⁴tn Heb “the woman.”

[13:11] ¹⁵tn Heb “I [am].”

[19:26] ¹⁵tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[19:26] ¹⁶tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

[19:27] ¹⁷tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[20:4] ¹⁹tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”

[20:4] ²⁰tn Heb “came to.”

[20:4] ²¹tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

[11:2] ²¹tn Heb “bore.”

[11:2] ²²tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

[13:6] ²³tn Heb “The man of God.”

[13:6] ²⁴tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”