Judges 9:21
Context9:21 Then Jotham ran away 1 to Beer and lived there to escape from 2 Abimelech his half-brother. 3
Judges 13:2
Context13:2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. 4
Judges 16:1
ContextSamson’s Downfall
16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. 5
Judges 20:27
Context20:27 The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;
Judges 20:47
Context20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.
Judges 21:2
Context21:2 So the people came to Bethel 6 and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. 7
1 tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”
2 tn Heb “from before.”
3 tn Heb “his brother.”
4 tn Heb “and had not given birth.”
5 tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.
6 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
7 tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.