Judges 9:21

9:21 Then Jotham ran away ¹  to Beer and lived there to escape from ²  Abimelech his half-brother. ³ 

Judges 13:2

13:2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. ⁴ 

Judges 16:1

Samson’s Downfall

16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. ⁵ 

Judges 20:27

20:27 The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

Judges 20:47

20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ⁶  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ⁷ 

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¹ tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”

² tn Heb “from before.”

³ tn Heb “his brother.”

⁴ tn Heb “and had not given birth.”

⁵ tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.

⁶ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁷ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.