Discovery BoxJudges 7:24 
Context7:24 Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, “Go down and head off the Midianites. 1 Take control of the fords of the streams 2 all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.” 3 When all the Ephraimites had assembled, 4 they took control of the fords 5 all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.
Judges 9:48
Context9:48 He and all his men 6 went up on Mount Zalmon. He 7 took an ax 8 in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it 9 on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” 10
Judges 16:3
Context16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. 11 He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. 12 He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. 13
1 tn Heb “to meet Midian.”
2 tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”
3 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification (also later in this verse).
4 tn Heb “And all the men of Ephraim were summoned.”
5 tn Heb “they captured the waters.”
6 tn Heb “his people.”
7 tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.
8 tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.
9 tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”
10 tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”
11 tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”
12 tn Heb “with the bar.”
13 tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”
