Judges 2:15

2:15 Whenever they went out to fight, ¹  the Lord did them harm, ²  just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. ³  They suffered greatly. ⁴ 

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁵  so the Lord turned them over to ⁶  Midian for seven years.

Judges 6:24

6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” ⁷  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁸  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

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. ⁹ 

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, ¹⁰  for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ ¹¹ 

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¹ tn The expression “to fight” is interpretive.

² tn Heb “the Lord’s hand was against them for harm.”

³ tn Heb “just as he had said and just as he had sworn to them.”

⁴ tn Or “they experienced great distress.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁶ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

⁷ tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

⁸ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁹ tn Heb “Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s messenger.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

¹¹ tn Heb “is cursed.”