Judges 4:5

4:5 She would sit ¹  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ²  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ³ 

Judges 13:9

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ⁴  God’s angelic messenger visited ⁵  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ⁶  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ⁷  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ⁸  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁹  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ¹⁰ 

[4:5]  ¹ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

[4:5]  ² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ³ tn Heb “for judgment.”

[13:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “came to.”

[18:7]  ⁷ tn Or “went.”

[18:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

[18:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

[18:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

[18:7]  ¹¹ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.