9:50 Abimelech moved on 1 to Thebez; he besieged and captured it. 2
14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 4 and gave them 5 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 6
1 tn Or “went.”
2 tn Heb “he camped near Thebez and captured it.”
3 tn Heb “Ibzan.” The pronoun “he” is used in the translation in keeping with English style, which tends to use a proper name first in a sentence followed by a pronoun rather than vice versa.
4 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
5 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
6 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”