Discovery BoxJudges 9:10 
Context9:10 “So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ 1
Judges 9:12
Context9:12 “So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You come and be our king!’ 2
Judges 9:14
Context9:14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ 3
Judges 11:6
Context11:6 They said, 4 “Come, be our commander, so we can fight with the Ammonites.”
Judges 13:22
Context13:22 Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!” 5
Judges 15:3
Context15:3 Samson said to them, 6 “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” 7
1 tn Or “and rule over us!”
2 tn Or “and rule over us!”
3 tn Or “and rule over us!”
4 tn Heb “to Jephthah.”
5 tn Or “seen God.” Some take the Hebrew term אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) as the divine name (“God”) here, but this seems unlikely since v. 21 informs us that Manoah realized this was the
6 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”
7 tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”
