Judges 9:25

9:25 The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting ¹  bandits in ²  the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it. ³ 

Judges 13:10

13:10 The woman ran at once and told her husband, ⁴  “Come quickly, ⁵  the man who visited ⁶  me the other day has appeared to me!”

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ⁷  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ⁸  Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 14:6

14:6 The Lord’s spirit empowered ⁹  him and he tore the lion ¹⁰  in two with his bare hands ¹¹  as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Judges 14:13-14

14:13 But if you cannot solve it, ¹²  you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.” They said to him, “Let us hear your riddle.” ¹³  14:14 He said to them,

“Out of the one who eats came something to eat;

out of the strong one came something sweet.”

They could not solve the riddle for three days.

Judges 16:6

16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” ¹⁴ 

Judges 16:10

16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived ¹⁵  me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

[9:25]  ¹ tn Heb “set against him bandits.”

[9:25]  ² tn Heb “on the tops of.”

[9:25]  ³ tn Heb “It was told to Abimelech.”

[13:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and said to him.” This phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons.

[13:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look.”

[13:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “came to.”

[14:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[14:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

[14:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “rushed on.”

[14:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him” or “it”; the referent (the lion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:6]  ¹² tn Heb “and there was nothing in his hand.”

[14:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “you are unable to tell me.”

[14:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Give your riddle so we can hear it.”

[16:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”

[16:10]  ¹⁹ 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.