Hakim-hakim 6:39

6:39 Gideon said to God, “Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. ¹  Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew.” ² 

Hakim-hakim 7:8

7:8 The men ³  who were chosen ⁴  took supplies ⁵  and their trumpets. Gideon ⁶  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ⁷  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ⁸  were camped down below ⁹  in the valley.

Hakim-hakim 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ¹⁰  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ¹¹  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Hakim-hakim 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin ¹²  at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength ¹³  was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring ¹⁴  En Hakkore. ¹⁵  It remains in Lehi to this very day.

[6:39]  ¹ tn Heb “Let your anger not rage at me, so that I might speak only this once.”

[6:39]  ² tn Heb “let the fleece alone be dry, while dew is on all the ground.”

[7:8]  ³ tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ⁴ tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

[7:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[13:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “The man of God.”

[13:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

[15:19]  ¹² tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

[15:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “spirit.”

[15:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:19]  ¹⁵ sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”