Judges 5:29

5:29 The wisest of her ladies ¹  answer;

indeed she even thinks to herself,

Judges 4:4

4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, ²  wife of Lappidoth, was ³  leading ⁴  Israel at that time.

Judges 8:31

8:31 His concubine, ⁵  who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech. ⁶ 

Judges 11:38

11:38 He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave ⁷  for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills. ⁸ 

Judges 14:4

14:4 Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, ⁹  because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines ¹⁰  (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).

Judges 19:10

19:10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left ¹¹  and traveled as far as ¹²  Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). ¹³  He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. ¹⁴ 

Judges 11:34

11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ¹⁵  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ¹⁶  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

Judges 14:3

14:3 But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our ¹⁷  people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” ¹⁸  But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, ¹⁹  because she is the right one for me.” ²⁰ 

Judges 18:28

18:28 No one came to the rescue because the city ²¹  was far from Sidon ²²  and they had no dealings with anyone. ²³  The city ²⁴  was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites ²⁵  rebuilt the city and occupied it.

[5:29]  ¹ tn Or “princesses.”

[4:4]  ² tn Heb “ a woman, a prophetess.” In Hebrew idiom the generic “woman” sometimes precedes the more specific designation. See GKC 437-38 §135.b.

[4:4]  ³ tn Heb “she was.” The pronoun refers back to the nominative absolute “Deborah.” Hebrew style sometimes employs such resumptive pronouns when lengthy qualifiers separate the subject from the verb.

[4:4]  ⁴ tn Or “judging.”

[8:31]  ³ sn A concubine was a slave woman in ancient Near Eastern societies who was the legal property of her master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with her master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).

[8:31]  ⁴ sn The name Abimelech means “my father is king.”

[11:38]  ⁴ tn Heb “he sent her.”

[11:38]  ⁵ tn Heb “on the hills.” The words “as she walked” are supplied.

[14:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “this was from the LORD.”

[14:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “for an opportunity he was seeking from the Philistines.”

[19:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and he arose and went.”

[19:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “to the front of.”

[19:10]  ⁸ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:10]  ⁹ tc Some ancient witnesses add “and his servant.”

[11:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”

[11:34]  ⁸ tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”

[14:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.

[14:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”

[14:3]  ¹⁰ tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.

[14:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”

[18:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[18:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.”

[18:28]  ¹² tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “They”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.