Judges 6:28

6:28 When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw ¹  the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

Judges 16:14

16:14 So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are here, ²  Samson!” ³  He woke up ⁴  and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ⁵  said to their kinsmen, ⁶  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 20:33

20:33 ⁷  All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

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¹ tn Heb “look!” The narrator uses this word to invite his audience/readers to view the scene through the eyes of the men.

² tn Heb “are upon you.”

³ tc The MT of vv. 13b-14a reads simply, “He said to her, ‘If you weave the seven braids of my head with the web.’ And she fastened with the pin and said to him.” The additional words in the translation, “and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.’ 16:14 So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom,” which without doubt represent the original text, are supplied from the ancient Greek version. (In both vv. 13b and 14a the Greek version has “to the wall” after “with the pin,” but this is an interpretive addition that reflects a misunderstanding of ancient weaving equipment. See G. F. Moore, Judges [ICC], 353-54.) The Hebrew textual tradition was accidentally shortened during the copying process. A scribe’s eye jumped from the first instance of “with the web” to the second, causing him to leave out inadvertently the intervening words.

⁴ tn The Hebrew adds, “from his sleep.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁷ sn Verses 33-36a give a condensed account of the battle from this point on, while vv. 36b-48 offer a more detailed version of how the ambush contributed to Gibeah’s defeat.