Judges 6:13
6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, 1 but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster 2 overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 3 ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
Judges 6:37
6:37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it 4 is dry, then I will be sure 5 that you will use me to deliver Israel, 6 as you promised.”
Judges 9:48
9:48 He and all his men 7 went up on Mount Zalmon. He 8 took an ax 9 in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it 10 on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” 11
Judges 13:7
13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. 12 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 13 For the child will be dedicated 14 to God from birth till the day he dies.’”
Judges 15:11
15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”
Judges 16:17-18
16:17 Finally he told her his secret. 15 He said to her, “My hair has never been cut, 16 for I have been dedicated to God 17 from the time I was conceived. 18 If my head 19 were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”
16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, 20 she sent for 21 the rulers of the Philistines, saying, “Come up here again, for he has told me 22 his secret.” 23 So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.
Judges 19:18
19:18 The Levite 24 said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem 25 in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. 26 But no one has invited me into their home.
1 tn Heb “But my lord.”
2 tn Heb “all this.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Heb “all the ground.”
5 tn Or “know.”
6 tn Heb “you will deliver Israel by my hand.”
7 tn Heb “his people.”
8 tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.
9 tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.
10 tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”
11 tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”
12 tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.
13 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
14 tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”
15 tn Heb “all his heart.”
16 tn Heb “a razor has not come upon my head.”
17 tn Or “set apart to God.” Traditionally the Hebrew term נָזִיר (nazir) has been translated “Nazirite.” The word is derived from the verb נָזַר (nazar, “to dedicate; to consecrate; to set apart”).
18 tn Heb “from the womb of my mother.”
19 tn Heb “I.” The referent has been made more specific in the translation (“my head”).
20 tn Heb “all his heart.”
21 tn Heb “she sent and summoned.”
22 tc The translation follows the Qere, לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the Kethib, לָהּ (lah, “to her”).
23 tn Heb “all his heart.”
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.
26 tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”