Judges 3:12

Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance

3:12 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹  The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel ²  because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.

Judges 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. ³  For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” ⁴ 

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ⁵  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ⁶  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ⁷ 

Judges 18:27

18:27 Now the Danites ⁸  took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city. ⁹ 

[3:12]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord” (also later in this verse).

[3:12]  ² tn Heb “strengthened Eglon…against Israel.”

[11:37]  ³ tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

[11:37]  ⁴ tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

[16:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

[18:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:27]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.