Discovery BoxJudges 9:27 
Context9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, 1 squeezed out the juice, 2 and celebrated. They came to the temple 3 of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.
Judges 9:43-44
Context9:43 he took his men 4 and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, 5 he attacked and struck them down. 6 9:44 Abimelech and his units 7 attacked and blocked 8 the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.
Judges 13:9
Context13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. 9 God’s angelic messenger visited 10 the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.
1 tn Heb “vineyards.”
2 tn Heb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-14.
3 tn Heb “house.”
4 tn Heb “his people.”
5 tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”
6 tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”
7 tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”
8 tn Heb “stood [at].”
9 tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”
10 tn Heb “came to.”
