Judges 1:15

1:15 She answered, “Please give me a special present. ¹  Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs. ² 

Judges 11:7

11:7 Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave ³  my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”

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? ⁴  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

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¹ tn Elsewhere the Hebrew word בְרָכָה (vÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).

² tn Some translations regard the expressions “springs of water” (גֻּלֹּת מָיִם, gullot mayim) and “springs” (גֻּלֹּת) as place names here (cf. NRSV).

³ tn Heb “Did you not hate me and make me leave?”

⁴ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”