Hakim-hakim 4:21

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ¹  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ²  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ³  and he died.

Hakim-hakim 8:15

8:15 He approached the men of Succoth and said, “Look what I have! ⁴  Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying, ‘You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?’” ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. ⁶  He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Hakim-hakim 15:14

15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered ⁷  him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in ⁸  fire, and they ⁹  melted away from his hands.

[4:21]  ¹ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

[4:21]  ² tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ³ tn Heb “and exhausted.” Another option is to understand this as a reference to the result of the fatal blow. In this case, the phrase could be translated, “and he breathed his last.”

[8:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “Look!” The words “what I have” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “Are the palms of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give to your exhausted men bread?”

[8:15]  sn Gideon changes their actual statement (see v. 6) by saying exhausted men rather than “army.” In this way he emphasizes the crisis his men were facing and highlights the insensitivity of the men of Succoth.

[13:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “our hand.”

[15:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “rushed on.”

[15:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “burned with.”

[15:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “his bonds.”