Judges 7:10
Context7:10 But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with Purah your servant
Judges 8:17
Context8:17 He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.
Judges 8:29
Context8:29 Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down. 1
Judges 9:53
Context9:53 a woman threw an upper millstone 2 down on his 3 head and shattered his skull.
Judges 14:1
Context14:1 Samson went down to Timnah, where a Philistine girl caught his eye. 4
Judges 15:17
Context15:17 When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down 5 and named that place Ramath Lehi. 6
Judges 20:21
Context20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. 7
1 tn Heb “went and lived in his house.”
2 sn A hand mill consisted of an upper stone and larger lower stone. One would turn the upper stone with a handle to grind the grain, which was placed between the stones. An upper millstone, which was typically about two inches thick and a foot or so in diameter, probably weighed 25-30 pounds (11.4-13.6 kg). See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 268; C. F. Burney, Judges, 288.
3 tn Heb “Abimelech’s.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “his” in the translation in keeping with conventions of English narrative style.
4 tn Heb “and he saw a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”
5 tn Heb “from his hand.”
6 sn The name Ramath Lehi means “Height of the Jawbone.”
7 tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”