Judges 1:4
Context1:4 The men of Judah attacked, 1 and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.
Judges 8:3
Context8:3 It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” 2 When he said this, they calmed down. 3
Judges 13:1
ContextSamson’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.
Judges 20:16
Context20:16 Among this army 5 were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. 6 Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target. 7
1 tn Heb “Judah went up.”
2 tn Heb “What was I able to do compared to you?”
3 tn Heb “Then their spirits relaxed from against him, when he spoke this word.”
4 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
5 tn Heb “And from all this people.”
6 tn Heb “seven hundred choice men, bound/restricted in the right hand.” On the significance of the idiom, “bound/restricted in the right hand,” see the translator’s note on 3:15.
7 tn “at a single hair and not miss.”