Judges 6:37
Context6:37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it 1 is dry, then I will be sure 2 that you will use me to deliver Israel, 3 as you promised.”
Judges 6:39
Context6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. 4 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.” 5
Judges 9:24
Context9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother 6 who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. 7
Judges 16:30
Context16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard 8 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. 9


[6:37] 1 tn Heb “all the ground.”
[6:37] 3 tn Heb “you will deliver Israel by my hand.”
[6:39] 4 tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”
[6:39] 5 tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”
[9:24] 7 tn Heb “their brother.”
[9:24] 8 tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”
[16:30] 10 tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”
[16:30] 11 tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”