Hakim-hakim 4:3

4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ¹  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ²  and he cruelly ³  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Hakim-hakim 9:1

Abimelech Murders His Brothers

9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. ⁴  He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 13:10

13:10 The woman ran at once and told her husband, ⁶  “Come quickly, ⁷  the man who visited ⁸  me the other day has appeared to me!”

[4:3]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:3]  ² tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

[4:3]  ³ tn Heb “with strength.”

[9:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

[9:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”

[13:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and said to him.” This phrase has not been translated for stylistic reasons.

[13:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look.”

[13:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “came to.”