Judges 4:17

4:17 Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor ¹  and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty. ² 

Judges 4:21

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ³  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ⁴  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ⁵  and he died.

Judges 7:8

7:8 The men ⁶  who were chosen ⁷  took supplies ⁸  and their trumpets. Gideon ⁹  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ¹⁰  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ¹¹  were camped down below ¹²  in the valley.

Judges 19:9

19:9 When the man got ready to leave ¹³  with his concubine and his servant, ¹⁴  his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look! The day is almost over! ¹⁵  Stay another night! Since the day is over, ¹⁶  stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.” ¹⁷ 

[4:17]  ¹ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[4:17]  ² tn Heb “for there was peace between.”

[4:21]  ³ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

[4:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “and exhausted.” Another option is to understand this as a reference to the result of the fatal blow. In this case, the phrase could be translated, “and he breathed his last.”

[7:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ⁶ tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

[7:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[19:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “the man arose to go.”

[19:9]  ⁸ tn Or “young man.”

[19:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “the day is sinking to become evening.”

[19:9]  ¹⁰ tn Or “declining.”

[19:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”