Discovery BoxJudges 6:30 
Context6:30 The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so we can execute him! 1 He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”
Judges 9:2
Context9:2 “Tell 2 all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want 3 to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” 4
Judges 13:8
Context13:8 Manoah prayed to the Lord, 5 “Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God 6 to visit 7 us again, so he can teach 8 us how we should raise 9 the child who will be born.”
Judges 14:12
Context14:12 Samson said to them, “I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, 10 I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets 11 of clothes.
Judges 15:10
Context15:10 The men of Judah said, “Why are you attacking 12 us?” The Philistines 13 said, “We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us.”
Judges 15:12
Context15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me 14 you will not kill 15 me.”
Judges 16:15
Context16:15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? 16 Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”
Judges 16:25
Context16:25 When they really started celebrating, 17 they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. 18 They made him stand between two pillars.
Judges 16:28
Context16:28 Samson called to the Lord, “O Master, Lord, 19 remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge 20 against the Philistines for my two eyes!”
Judges 18:24
Context18:24 He said, “You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, ‘What do you want?’” 21
Judges 19:5
Context19:5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. 22 But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy, 23 then you can go.”
Judges 19:24
Context19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s 24 concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. 25 But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”
Judges 20:13
Context20:13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings 26 in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” 27 But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
Judges 21:7
Context21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? 28 After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
1 tn Heb “and let him die.” The jussive form with vav after the imperative is best translated as a purpose clause.
2 tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”
3 tn Heb “What good is it to you?”
4 tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”
5 tn The Hebrew text adds “and said.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
6 tn Heb “the man of God.”
7 tn Heb “come to.”
8 tc The LXX has “enlighten,” understanding the Hebrew to read וִיאִירֵנוּ (vi’irenu, “to give light”) rather than the reading of the MT, וְיוֹרֵנוּ (vÿyorenu, “to teach”).
9 tn Heb “what we should do for.”
10 tn Heb “If you really can tell it to me [during] the seven days of the feast and you find [its answer].”
11 tn Heb “changes.”
12 tn Or “come up against.”
13 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn Or “swear to me.”
15 tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.
16 tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”
17 tn Heb “When their heart was good.”
18 tn Heb “before them.”
19 tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).
20 tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”
21 tn Heb “What is this you say to me, ‘What to you?’”
22 tn Heb “and he arose to go.”
23 tn Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”
24 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”
26 tn Heb “the men, sons of wickedness.”
27 tn Heb “and burn away wickedness from Israel.”
28 tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”
