Hakim-hakim 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, ¹  I risked my life ²  and advanced against ³  the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up ⁴  to fight with me today?”

Hakim-hakim 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. ⁵  So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ⁶  For the child will be dedicated ⁷  to God from birth till the day he dies.’”

[12:3]  ¹ tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

[12:3]  ² tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

[12:3]  ³ tn Heb “crossed over to.”

[12:3]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:7]  ⁵ tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.

[13:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

[13:7]  ⁷ tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”