Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹  of the land. A unit ²  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ³ 

Judges 13:9

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ⁴  God’s angelic messenger visited ⁵  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

Judges 13:21

13:21 The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger. ⁶ 

Judges 18:24

18:24 He said, “You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, ‘What do you want?’” ⁷ 

[9:37]  ¹ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

[9:37]  ² tn Heb “head.”

[9:37]  ³ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

[13:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “came to.”

[13:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s messenger.”

[18:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “What is this you say to me, ‘What to you?’”