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 4:5

4:5 She would sit ³  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ⁴  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ⁵ 

Judges 4:18-19

4:18 Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him, “Stop and rest, ⁶  my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera ⁷  stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him. 4:19 He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Judges 11:34-35

11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ⁸  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ⁹  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter. 11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! ¹⁰  You have brought me disaster! ¹¹  I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” ¹² 

Judges 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. ¹³  For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” ¹⁴ 

Judges 14:8

14:8 Some time later, when he went back to marry ¹⁵  her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw ¹⁶  a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

Judges 14:17

14:17 She cried on his shoulder ¹⁷  until the party was almost over. ¹⁸  Finally, on the seventh day, he told her because she had nagged him so much. ¹⁹  Then she told the young men the solution to the riddle. ²⁰ 

Judges 16:7

16:7 Samson said to her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh ²¹  bowstrings ²²  that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

Judges 16:11

16:11 He said to her, “If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, ²³  I will become weak and be just like any other man.”

Judges 16:19

16:19 She made him go to sleep on her lap ²⁴  and then called a man in to shave off ²⁵  the seven braids of his hair. ²⁶  She made him vulnerable ²⁷  and his strength left him.

Judges 20:6

20:6 I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces ²⁸  throughout the territory occupied by Israel, ²⁹  because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity ³⁰  in Israel.

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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 That is, “consider legal disputes.”

⁴ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁵ tn Heb “for judgment.”

⁶ tn Heb “Turn aside” (also a second time later in this verse).

⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”

⁹ tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

¹¹ tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

¹² tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

¹³ tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “get.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and look, a swarm of bees…”

¹⁷ tn Heb “on him.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “the seven days [during] which they held the party.” This does not mean she cried for the entire seven days; v. 15 indicates otherwise. She cried for the remainder of the seven day period, beginning on the fourth day.

¹⁹ tn Heb “because she forced him.”

²⁰ tn Heb “she told the riddle to the sons of her people.”

²¹ tn Or “moist.”

²² tn The word refers to a bowstring, probably made from animal tendons. See Ps 11:2; Job 30:11.

²³ tn Heb “with which no work has been done.”

²⁴ tn Heb “on her knees.” The expression is probably euphemistic for sexual intercourse. See HALOT 160-61 s.v. בֶּרֶךְ.

²⁵ tn Heb “she called for a man and she shaved off.” The point seems to be that Delilah acted through the instrumentality of the man. See J. A. Soggin, Judges (OTL), 254.

²⁶ tn Heb “head.” By metonymy the hair of his head is meant.

²⁷ tn Heb “She began to humiliate him.” Rather than referring to some specific insulting action on Delilah’s part after Samson’s hair was shaved off, this statement probably means that she, through the devious actions just described, began the process of Samson’s humiliation which culminates in the following verses.

²⁸ tn Heb “her”; the referent is more naturally stated in English as “the pieces.”

²⁹ tn Heb “throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel.”

³⁰ tn Heb “a wicked and disgraceful [thing].”