Judges 7:24

Gideon Appeases the Ephraimites

7:24 Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, “Go down and head off the Midianites. ¹  Take control of the fords of the streams ²  all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.” ³  When all the Ephraimites had assembled, ⁴  they took control of the fords ⁵  all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ⁶  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ⁷  took an ax ⁸  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ⁹  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ¹²  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹³ 

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¹ tn Heb “to meet Midian.”

² tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”

³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification (also later in this verse).

⁴ tn Heb “And all the men of Ephraim were summoned.”

⁵ tn Heb “they captured the waters.”

⁶ tn Heb “his people.”

⁷ tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

⁸ tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

⁹ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

¹⁰ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”

¹¹ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

¹² tn Heb “with the bar.”

¹³ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”