Judges 8:32

8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a very ¹  old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 14:2

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

Judges 14:10

14:10 Then Samson’s father accompanied him to Timnah for the marriage. ⁴  Samson hosted a party ⁵  there, for this was customary for bridegrooms ⁶  to do.

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,

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¹ tn Heb “good.”

² tn Heb “and he went up.”

³ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

⁴ tn Heb “And his father went down to the woman.”

⁵ tn Or “[wedding] feast.”

⁶ tn Heb “the young men.”

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.”