Discovery BoxJudges 3:3 
Context3:3 These were the nations: 1 the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath. 2
Judges 3:10
Context3:10 The Lord’s spirit empowered him 3 and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him. 4
Judges 13:19-20
Context13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. 5 13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it 6 while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown 7 to the ground.
Judges 14:4
Context14:4 Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, 8 because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines 9 (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).
Judges 14:6
Context14:6 The Lord’s spirit empowered 10 him and he tore the lion 11 in two with his bare hands 12 as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 13 and gave them 14 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 15
Judges 15:14
Context15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered 16 him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in 17 fire, and they 18 melted away from his hands.
Judges 21:7
Context21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? 19 After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
1 tn The words “These were the nations,” though not present in the Hebrew text, are supplied in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.”
3 tn Heb “was on him.”
4 tn Heb “his hand was strong against Cushan-Rishathaim.”
5 tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the
6 tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”
7 tn Heb “on their faces.”
8 tn Heb “this was from the LORD.”
9 tn Heb “for an opportunity he was seeking from the Philistines.”
10 tn Heb “rushed on.”
11 tn Heb “him” or “it”; the referent (the lion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Heb “and there was nothing in his hand.”
13 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
14 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
15 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”
16 tn Heb “rushed on.”
17 tn Heb “burned with.”
18 tn Heb “his bonds.”
19 tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”
