Discovery BoxJudges 7:9
Context7:9 That night the Lord said to Gideon, 1 “Get up! Attack 2 the camp, for I am handing it over to you. 3
Judges 9:32
Context9:32 Now, come up 4 at night with your men 5 and set an ambush in the field outside the city. 6
Judges 9:34
Context9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up 7 at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into 8 four units.
Judges 16:2-3
Context16:2 The Gazites were told, 9 “Samson has come here!” So they surrounded the town 10 and hid all night at the city gate, waiting for him to leave. 11 They relaxed 12 all night, thinking, 13 “He will not leave 14 until morning comes; 15 then we will kill him!” 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 6:40
Context6:40 That night God did as he asked. 19 Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.
Judges 20:5
Context20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. 20 They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.
Judges 6:25
Context6:25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. 21 Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.
Judges 6:27
Context6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants 22 and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family 23 and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. 24
Judges 19:25
Context19:25 The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite 25 grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. 26 They raped 27 her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.
[7:9] 1 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[7:9] 2 tn Heb “Go down against.”
[7:9] 3 tn The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, emphasizing the certainty of the promise.
[9:32] 5 tn Heb “you and the people who are with you.”
[9:32] 6 tn The words “outside the city” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[9:34] 7 tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”
[9:34] 8 tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[16:2] 10 tc Heb “To the Gazites, saying.” A verb is missing from the MT; some ancient Greek witnesses add “it was reported.”
[16:2] 11 tn Heb “And they surrounded.” The rest of the verse suggests that “the town” is the object, not “the house.” Though the Gazites knew Samson was in the town, apparently they did not know exactly where he had gone. Otherwise, they would could have just gone into or surrounded the house and would not have needed to post guards at the city gate.
[16:2] 12 tn Heb “and they lay in wait for him all night in the city gate.”
[16:2] 13 tn Heb “were silent.”
[16:2] 15 tn The words “He will not leave” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[16:2] 16 tn Heb “until the light of the morning.”
[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.”
[6:40] 16 tn Heb “God did so that night.”
[20:5] 19 tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”
[6:25] 22 tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar.
[6:27] 25 tn Heb “men from among his servants.”
[6:27] 27 tn Heb “so he did it at night.”
[19:25] 28 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[19:25] 29 tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”
