Judges 6:38

6:38 The Lord did as he asked. ¹  When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl. ² 

Judges 9:35

9:35 When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ³  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ⁴  Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 15:4

15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals ⁵  and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. ⁶ 

Judges 19:2

19:2 However, she ⁷  got angry at him ⁸  and went home ⁹  to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

Judges 19:29

19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ¹⁰  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ¹¹ 

Judges 21:4

21:4 The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace. ¹² 

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¹ tn Heb “And it was so.”

² tn Heb “dew dripped from the fleece – a bowl full of water.”

³ tn Heb “and he went up.”

⁴ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

⁵ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

⁶ tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

⁷ tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).

⁹ tn Heb “went from him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”

¹² tn Or “peace offerings.”