Judges 4:22

4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent, ¹  and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead ²  with the tent peg in his temple.

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ³  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 16:13

16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair ⁴  into the fabric on the loom ⁵  and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 16:18

16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, ⁶  she sent for ⁷  the rulers of the Philistines, saying, “Come up here again, for he has told me ⁸  his secret.” ⁹  So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.

[4:22]  ¹ tn Heb “he went to her.”

[4:22]  ² tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

[16:5]  ³ tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

[16:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.

[16:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.

[16:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “she sent and summoned.”

[16:18]  ⁹ tc The translation follows the Qere, לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the Kethib, לָהּ (lah, “to her”).

[16:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all his heart.”