Judges 1:32
Context1:32 The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.
Judges 13:18
Context13:18 The Lord’s messenger said to him, “You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.” 1
Judges 15:7
Context15:7 Samson said to them, “Because you did this, 2 I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting.” 3
Judges 17:13
Context17:13 Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, 4 because I have this Levite as my priest.”
Judges 20:41
Context20:41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked 5 because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep. 6
1 tn Heb “Why do you ask for my name, for it is incomprehensible?” The Hebrew adjective פִּלְאִי (pile’iy, “wonderful, incomprehensible”) refers to what is in a category of its own and is beyond full human understanding. Note the use of this word in Ps 139:6, where God’s knowledge is described as incomprehensible and unattainable.
2 tn The Niphal of נָקָם (naqam, “to avenge, to take vengeance”) followed by the preposition ב (bet) has the force “to get revenge against.” See 1 Sam 18:25; Jer 50:15; Ezek 25:12.
3 tn Heb “and afterward I will stop.”
4 tn Heb “do good for me.”
5 tn Or “were terrified.”
6 tn Heb “disaster touched against them.”