Judges 6:21
6:21 The Lord’s messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. 1 Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord’s messenger then disappeared. 2
Judges 9:15
9:15 The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose 3 me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! 4 Otherwise 5 may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’
Judges 9:49
9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches 6 against the stronghold and set fire to it. 7 All the people 8 of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.
Judges 15:14
15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered 9 him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in 10 fire, and they 11 melted away from his hands.
Judges 20:48
20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 12 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 13 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 14
1 tn Heb “extended the tip of the staff which was in his hand and touched the meat and unleavened bread.”
2 tn Heb “went from his eyes.”
3 tn Heb “are about to anoint [with oil].”
4 tn Heb “in my shade.”
5 tn Heb “If not.”
6 tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
7 tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”
8 tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.
9 tn Heb “rushed on.”
10 tn Heb “burned with.”
11 tn Heb “his bonds.”
12 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
13 tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
14 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”