Judges 9:10
9:10 “So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ 1
Judges 9:12
9:12 “So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You come and be our king!’ 2
Judges 9:14
9:14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ 3
Judges 11:6
11:6 They said, 4 “Come, be our commander, so we can fight with the Ammonites.”
Judges 13:22
13:22 Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!” 5
Judges 15:3
15:3 Samson said to them, 6 “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” 7
1 tn Or “and rule over us!”
2 tn Or “and rule over us!”
3 tn Or “and rule over us!”
4 tn Heb “to Jephthah.”
5 tn Or “seen God.” Some take the Hebrew term אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) as the divine name (“God”) here, but this seems unlikely since v. 21 informs us that Manoah realized this was the Lord’s messenger, not God himself. Of course, he may be exaggerating for the sake of emphasis. Another option, the one followed in the translation, understands Manoah to be referring to a lesser deity. The term אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) is sometimes used of an individual deity other than the Lord (see BDB 43 s.v. 2.a). One cannot assume that Manoah was a theologically sophisticated monotheist.
6 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”
7 tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”