Judges 3:4

3:4 They were left to test Israel, so the Lord would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses. ¹ 

Judges 4:2

4:2 The Lord turned them over to ²  King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. ³  The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. ⁴ 

Judges 7:16

7:16 He divided the three hundred men into three units. ⁵  He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them. ⁶ 

Judges 7:20

7:20 All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. ⁷  Then they yelled, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁸  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 15:12

15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me ⁹  you will not kill ¹⁰  me.”

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “to know if they would hear the commands of the Lord which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.”

[4:2]  ² tn Heb “the Lord sold them into the hands of.”

[4:2]  ³ tn Or “King Jabin of Hazor, a Canaanite ruler.”

[4:2]  ⁴ tn Or “Harosheth of the Pagan Nations”; cf. KJV “Harosheth of the Gentiles.”

[7:16]  ³ tn Heb “heads.”

[7:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “the jars.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“them”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:20]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in order to blow [them].” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

[15:12]  ⁶ tn Or “swear to me.”

[15:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.