Hakim-hakim 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ¹  food scraps ²  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ³  They brought him to Jerusalem, ⁴  where he died.

Hakim-hakim 4:21

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ⁵  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ⁶  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ⁷  and he died.

Hakim-hakim 6:37

6:37 Look, I am putting a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece, and the ground around it ⁸  is dry, then I will be sure ⁹  that you will use me to deliver Israel, ¹⁰  as you promised.”

Hakim-hakim 7:20

7:20 All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. ¹¹  Then they yelled, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

Hakim-hakim 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ¹²  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Hakim-hakim 16:23

Samson’s Death and Burial

16:23 The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

Hakim-hakim 18:3

18:3 As they approached ¹³  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ¹⁴  of the young Levite. So they stopped ¹⁵  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ¹⁶ 

[1:7]  ¹ tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

[1:7]  ² tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

[1:7]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[4:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

[4:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ⁷ 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.”

[6:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “all the ground.”

[6:37]  ⁹ tn Or “know.”

[6:37]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you will deliver Israel by my hand.”

[7:20]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in order to blow [them].” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:5]  ¹² tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

[18:3]  ¹³ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

[18:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”