Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹  of the land. A unit ²  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ³ 

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁴  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

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¹ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

² tn Heb “head.”

³ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”