Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ¹  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 20:47

20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

Judges 15:11

15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

Judges 20:45

20:45 The rest ²  turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites ³  caught ⁴  five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels ⁵  all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

[15:8]  ¹ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

[20:45]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ³ tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ⁴ tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.

[20:45]  ⁵ tn Heb “stuck close after them.”