Judges 14:7

14:7 Samson continued on down to Timnah ¹  and spoke to the girl. In his opinion, she was just the right one. ² 

Judges 2:11

A Monotonous Cycle

2:11 The Israelites did evil before ³  the Lord by worshiping ⁴  the Baals.

Judges 4:1

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4:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight ⁵  after Ehud’s death.

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁶  so the Lord turned them over to ⁷  Midian for seven years.

Judges 17:6

17:6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ⁸ 

Judges 21:25

21:25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ⁹ 

Judges 3:12

Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance

3:12 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹⁰  The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel ¹¹  because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.

Judges 3:7

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹²  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. ¹³ 

Judges 6:17

6:17 Gideon ¹⁴  said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, ¹⁵  then give me ¹⁶  a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

Judges 10:15

10:15 But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, ¹⁷  but deliver us today!” ¹⁸ 

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ¹⁹  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 16:21

16:21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

Judges 19:17

19:17 When he looked up and saw the traveler ²⁰  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

Judges 6:21

6:21 The Lord’s messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. ²¹  Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord’s messenger then disappeared. ²² 

Judges 14:3

14:3 But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our ²³  people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” ²⁴  But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, ²⁵  because she is the right one for me.” ²⁶ 

Judges 16:28

16:28 Samson called to the Lord, “O Master, Lord, ²⁷  remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge ²⁸  against the Philistines for my two eyes!”

Judges 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ²⁹  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ³⁰  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Judges 10:6

The Lord’s Patience Runs Short

10:6 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ³¹  They worshiped ³²  the Baals and the Ashtars, ³³  as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, ³⁴  Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. ³⁵  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship ³⁶  him.

[14:7]  ¹ tn Heb “He went down.”

[14:7]  ² tn Heb “She was the right one in the eyes of Samson.”

[2:11]  ³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[2:11]  ⁴ tn Or “serving”; or “following.”

[4:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “did evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

[6:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[6:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

[17:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

[21:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

[3:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord” (also later in this verse).

[3:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “strengthened Eglon…against Israel.”

[3:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[3:7]  ¹⁶ sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

[6:17]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “If I have found favor in your eyes.”

[6:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “perform for me.”

[10:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “according to all whatever is good in your eyes.”

[10:15]  ²⁰ sn You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today. The request seems contradictory, but it can be explained in one of two ways. They may be asking for relief from their enemies and direct discipline from God’s hand. Or they may mean, “In the future you can do whatever you like to us, but give us relief from what we’re suffering right now.”

[13:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[19:17]  ²³ tn Heb “the man, the traveler.”

[6:21]  ²⁵ tn Heb “extended the tip of the staff which was in his hand and touched the meat and unleavened bread.”

[6:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “went from his eyes.”

[14:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.

[14:3]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”

[14:3]  ²⁹ tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.

[14:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”

[16:28]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).

[16:28]  ³⁰ tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”

[19:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ³² tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

[10:6]  ³³ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[10:6]  ³⁴ tn Or “served;” or “followed.”

[10:6]  ³⁵ sn The Ashtars were local manifestations of the goddess Ashtar (i.e., Astarte).

[10:6]  ³⁶ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:6]  ³⁷ tn Heb “the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines.”

[10:6]  ³⁸ tn Or “serve”; or “follow.”