Judges 6:19

6:19 Gideon went and prepared a young goat, ¹  along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food ²  to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ³  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ⁴  took an ax ⁵  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ⁶  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ⁷ 

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ⁸  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ⁹  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹⁰ 

Judges 16:9

16:9 They hid ¹¹  in the bedroom and then she said to him, “The Philistines are here, ¹²  Samson!” He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. ¹³  The secret of his strength was not discovered. ¹⁴ 

Judges 18:19

18:19 They said to him, “Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser ¹⁵  and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?” ¹⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “a kid from among the goats.”

² tn The words “the food” are not in the Hebrew text (an implied direct object). They are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

³ tn Heb “his people.”

⁴ tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

⁵ tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

⁶ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

⁷ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”

⁸ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

⁹ tn Heb “with the bar.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

¹¹ tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting for her.” The grammatically singular form וְהָאֹרֵב (vÿha’orev) is collective here, referring to the rulers as a group (so also in v. 16).

¹² tn Heb “are upon you.”

¹³ tn Heb “when it smells fire.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “His strength was not known.”

¹⁵ tn See the note on the word “adviser” in 17:10.

¹⁶ tn Heb “Is it better for you to be priest for the house of one man or for you to be priest for a tribe, for a clan in Israel?”