8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. 1
13:21 The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger. 2
1 tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”
2 tn Heb “Then Manoah knew that he was the
3 tn Or “moist.”
4 tn The word refers to a bowstring, probably made from animal tendons. See Ps 11:2; Job 30:11.
5 tn Heb “with which no work has been done.”
6 tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
7 tn Heb “from the day.”
8 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”