Judges 15:10

15:10 The men of Judah said, “Why are you attacking ¹  us?” The Philistines ²  said, “We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us.”

Judges 9:10

9:10 “So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ ³ 

Judges 9:12

9:12 “So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You come and be our king!’ ⁴ 

Judges 9:8

9:8 “The trees were determined to go out ⁵  and choose a king for themselves. ⁶  They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ ⁷ 

Judges 9:14

9:14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ ⁸ 

[15:10]  ¹ tn Or “come up against.”

[15:10]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:10]  ³ tn Or “and rule over us!”

[9:12]  ⁵ tn Or “and rule over us!”

[9:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”

[9:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”

[9:8]  ⁹ tn Or “Rule over us!”

[9:14]  ⁹ tn Or “and rule over us!”