Judges 6:15

6:15 Gideon ¹  said to him, “But Lord, ²  how ³  can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.” ⁴ 

Judges 9:9

9:9 But the olive tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’ ⁵ 

Judges 15:12

15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me ⁶  you will not kill ⁷  me.”

Judges 16:10

16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived ⁸  me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

Judges 6:13

6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, ⁹  but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster ¹⁰  overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ¹¹  ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Judges 6:39

6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. ¹²  Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” ¹³ 

Judges 11:27

11:27 I have not done you wrong, ¹⁴  but you are doing wrong ¹⁵  by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, ¹⁶  I risked my life ¹⁷  and advanced against ¹⁸  the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up ¹⁹  to fight with me today?”

Judges 13:8

13:8 Manoah prayed to the Lord, ²⁰  “Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God ²¹  to visit ²²  us again, so he can teach ²³  us how we should raise ²⁴  the child who will be born.”

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 ²⁵  into the fabric on the loom ²⁶  and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Judges 16:15

16:15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ²⁷  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

[6:15]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:15]  ² tn Note the switch to אֲדֹנָי (’adonay, “Lord”). Gideon seems aware that he is speaking to someone other than, and superior to, the messenger, whom he addressed as אֲדֹנִי (’adoniy, “my lord”) in v. 13.

[6:15]  ³ tn Heb “with what.”

[6:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “in my father’s house.”

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “Should I stop my abundance, with which they honor gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?” The negative sentence in the translation reflects the force of the rhetorical question.

[15:12]  ⁹ tn Or “swear to me.”

[15:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.

[16:10]  ¹³ tn See Gen 31:7; Exod 8:29 [8:25 HT]; Job 13:9; Isa 44:20; Jer 9:4 for other uses of this Hebrew word (II תָּלַל, talal), which also occurs in v. 13.

[6:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “But my lord.”

[6:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “all this.”

[6:13]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[6:39]  ²¹ tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

[6:39]  ²² tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

[11:27]  ²⁵ tn Or “sinned against you.”

[11:27]  ²⁶ tn Or “evil.”

[12:3]  ²⁹ tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

[12:3]  ³⁰ tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

[12:3]  ³¹ tn Heb “crossed over to.”

[12:3]  ³² tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ³³ tn The Hebrew text adds “and said.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ³⁴ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:8]  ³⁵ tn Heb “come to.”

[13:8]  ³⁶ tc The LXX has “enlighten,” understanding the Hebrew to read וִיאִירֵנוּ (vi’irenu, “to give light”) rather than the reading of the MT, וְיוֹרֵנוּ (vÿyorenu, “to teach”).

[13:8]  ³⁷ tn Heb “what we should do for.”

[16:13]  ³⁷ 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]  ³⁸ 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.

[16:15]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”