Judges 6:22

6:22 When Gideon realized ¹  that it was the Lord’s messenger, he ²  said, “Oh no! ³  Master, Lord! ⁴  I have seen the Lord’s messenger face to face!”

Judges 13:20

13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it ⁵  while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown ⁶  to the ground.

Judges 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ⁷  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ⁸  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

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. ⁹  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ¹⁰  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹¹ 

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ¹²  his half-brothers ¹³  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ¹⁴ 

Judges 18:23

18:23 When they called out to the Danites, the Danites ¹⁵  turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

Judges 19:27

19:27 When her master ¹⁶  got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went outside to start on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, sprawled out on the doorstep of the house with her hands on the threshold.

[6:22]  ¹ tn Heb “saw.”

[6:22]  ² tn Heb “Gideon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:22]  ³ tn Or “Ah!”

[6:22]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text reads אֲדֹנַי יְהוִה (’adonay yÿhvih, “Lord [the same title used in v. 15], Lord”).

[13:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

[13:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “on their faces.”

[13:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “The man of God.”

[13:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

[16:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

[11:3]  ¹⁷ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[18:23]  ²¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:27]  ²⁵ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.