Judges 1:12

1:12 Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

Judges 6:12

6:12 The Lord’s messenger appeared and said to him, “The Lord is with you, courageous warrior!”

Judges 6:16

6:16 The Lord said to him, “Ah, but 1  I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.” 2 

Judges 6:23

6:23 The Lord said to him, “You are safe! 3  Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

Judges 7:9

Gideon Reassured of Victory

7:9 That night the Lord said to Gideon, 4  “Get up! Attack 5  the camp, for I am handing it over to you. 6 

Judges 10:11

10:11 The Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

Judges 13:12

13:12 Manoah said, “Now, when your announcement comes true, 7  how should the child be raised and what should he do?” 8 

Judges 13:18

13:18 The Lord’s messenger said to him, “You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.” 9 

Judges 15:7

15:7 Samson said to them, “Because you did this, 10  I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.” 11 

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.” 12 

Judges 16:10

16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived 13  me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

Judges 17:13

17:13 Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, 14  because I have this Levite as my priest.”

Judges 18:6

18:6 The priest said to them, “Go with confidence. 15  The Lord will be with you on your mission.” 16 

Judges 18:23

18:23 When they called out to the Danites, the Danites 17  turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

1 tn Or “certainly.”

2 tn Heb “You will strike down Midian as one man.” The idiom “as one man” emphasizes the collective unity of a group (see Judg 20:8, 11). Here it may carry the force, “as if they were just one man.”

3 tn Heb “Peace to you.” For a similar use of this idiom to introduce a reassuring word, see Gen 43:23.

4 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “Go down against.”

6 tn The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, emphasizing the certainty of the promise.

7 tn Heb “Now, [when] your word comes [to pass].”

8 tn Heb “what will be the child’s rule [i.e., way of life] and his work?”

9 tn Heb “Why do you ask for my name, for it is incomprehensible?” The Hebrew adjective פִּלְאִי (pile’iy, “wonderful, incomprehensible”) refers to what is in a category of its own and is beyond full human understanding. Note the use of this word in Ps 139:6, where God’s knowledge is described as incomprehensible and unattainable.

10 tn The Niphal of נָקָם (naqam, “to avenge, to take vengeance”) followed by the preposition ב (bet) has the force “to get revenge against.” See 1 Sam 18:25; Jer 50:15; Ezek 25:12.

11 tn Heb “and afterward I will stop.”

12 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”

13 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.

14 tn Heb “do good for me.”

15 tn Heb “in peace.”

16 tn Heb “In front of the LORD is your way in which you are going.”

17 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.