Discovery BoxJudges 13:3 
Context13:3 The Lord’s angelic 1 messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You 2 are infertile and childless, 3 but you will conceive and have a son.
Judges 13:10
Context13:10 The woman ran at once and told her husband, 4 “Come quickly, 5 the man who visited 6 me the other day has appeared to me!”
Judges 19:26
Context19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master 7 was staying until it became light. 8
Judges 20:4
Context20:4 The Levite, 9 the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in 10 Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin 11 to spend the night.
Judges 21:18
Context21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, 12 for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ 13
1 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive (also in vv. 6, 9).
2 tn Heb “Look, you.”
3 tn Heb “and have not given birth.”
4 tn Heb “and said to him.” This phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Heb “Look.”
6 tn Heb “came to.”
7 tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.
8 tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”
9 tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”
10 tn Heb “came to.”
11 tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”
12 tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”
13 tn Heb “is cursed.”
