Judges 4:6

4:6 She summoned ¹  Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

Judges 6:27

6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants ²  and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family ³  and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. ⁴ 

Judges 7:13

7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ⁵  The man ⁶  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ⁷  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ⁸ 

Judges 12:1

Civil Strife Mars the Victory

12:1 The Ephraimites assembled ⁹  and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight ¹⁰  with the Ammonites without asking ¹¹  us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!” ¹² 

Judges 15:14

15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered ¹³  him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in ¹⁴  fire, and they ¹⁵  melted away from his hands.

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. ¹⁶  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ¹⁷  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹⁸ 

Judges 16:9

16:9 They hid ¹⁹  in the bedroom and then she said to him, “The Philistines are here, ²⁰  Samson!” He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. ²¹  The secret of his strength was not discovered. ²² 

Judges 16:18

16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, ²³  she sent for ²⁴  the rulers of the Philistines, saying, “Come up here again, for he has told me ²⁵  his secret.” ²⁶  So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ²⁷  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ²⁸ 

Judges 19:3

19:3 her husband came ²⁹  after her, hoping he could convince her to return. ³⁰  He brought with him his servant ³¹  and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly. ³² 

[4:6]  ¹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[6:27]  ² tn Heb “men from among his servants.”

[6:27]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[6:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “so he did it at night.”

[7:13]  ³ tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

[7:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

[7:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

[12:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “the men of Ephraim were summoned [or “were mustered”].”

[12:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “cross over to fight.”

[12:1]  ⁶ tn Or “calling”; or “summoning.”

[12:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Your house we will burn over you with fire.”

[15:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “rushed on.”

[15:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “burned with.”

[15:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “his bonds.”

[16:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

[16:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting for her.” The grammatically singular form וְהָאֹרֵב (vÿha’orev) is collective here, referring to the rulers as a group (so also in v. 16).

[16:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “are upon you.”

[16:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “when it smells fire.”

[16:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “His strength was not known.”

[16:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “she sent and summoned.”

[16:18]  ¹⁰ tc The translation follows the Qere, לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the Kethib, לָהּ (lah, “to her”).

[16:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

[16:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”

[19:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “arose and came.”

[19:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to speak to her heart to bring her back.”

[19:3]  ¹² tn Or “young man.”

[19:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “he was happy to meet him.”