Judges 9:15

9:15 The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose ¹  me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! ²  Otherwise ³  may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’

Judges 11:27

11:27 I have not done you wrong, ⁴  but you are doing wrong ⁵  by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”

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? ⁶  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

Judges 17:2

17:2 He said to his mother, “You know ⁷  the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen ⁸  from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole ⁹  it, but now I am giving it back to you.” ¹⁰  His mother said, “May the Lord reward ¹¹  you, my son!”

[9:15]  ¹ tn Heb “are about to anoint [with oil].”

[9:15]  ² tn Heb “in my shade.”

[9:15]  ³ tn Heb “If not.”

[11:27]  ⁴ tn Or “sinned against you.”

[11:27]  ⁵ tn Or “evil.”

[16:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”

[17:2]  ¹⁰ tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[17:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “taken.”

[17:2]  ¹² tn Heb “took.”

[17:2]  ¹³ tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.

[17:2]  ¹⁴ tn Traditionally, “bless.”