Hakim-hakim 4:14

4:14 Deborah said to Barak, “Spring into action, ¹  for this is the day the Lord is handing Sisera over to you! ²  Has the Lord not taken the lead?” ³  Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

Hakim-hakim 9:2

9:2 “Tell ⁴  all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want ⁵  to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” ⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 12:1

Civil Strife Mars the Victory

12:1 The Ephraimites assembled ⁷  and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight ⁸  with the Ammonites without asking ⁹  us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!” ¹⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River ¹¹  opposite Ephraim. ¹²  Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive ¹³  said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked ¹⁴  him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Hakim-hakim 14:8

14:8 Some time later, when he went back to marry ¹⁵  her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw ¹⁶  a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

Hakim-hakim 17:3

17:3 When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, “I solemnly dedicate ¹⁷  this silver to the Lord. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.” ¹⁸ 

Hakim-hakim 19:22

19:22 They were having a good time, ¹⁹  when suddenly ²⁰  some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, ²¹  surrounded the house and kept beating ²²  on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” ²³ 

Hakim-hakim 20:42

20:42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook ²⁴  them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. ²⁵ 

[4:14]  ¹ tn Heb “Arise!”

[4:14]  ² tn The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the Lord speaks of it as a “done deal.”

[4:14]  ³ tn Heb “Has the Lord not gone out before you?”

[9:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”

[9:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “What good is it to you?”

[9:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

[12:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “the men of Ephraim were summoned [or “were mustered”].”

[12:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “cross over to fight.”

[12:1]  ⁹ tn Or “calling”; or “summoning.”

[12:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Your house we will burn over you with fire.”

[12:5]  ¹¹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:5]  ¹² tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

[12:5]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

[12:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “say to.”

[14:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “get.”

[14:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and look, a swarm of bees…”

[17:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “dedicating, I dedicate.” In this case the emphatic infinitive absolute lends a mood of solemnity to the statement.

[17:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to the LORD from my hand for my son to make a carved image and cast metal image.” She cannot mean that she is now taking the money from her hand and giving it back to her son so he can make an image. Verses 4-6 indicate she took back the money and used a portion of it to hire a silversmith to make an idol for her son to use. The phrase “a carved image and cast metal image” is best taken as referring to two idols (see 18:17-18), even though the verb at the end of v. 4, וַיְהִי (vayÿhi, “and it was [in the house of Micah]”), is singular.

[19:22]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “they were making their heart good.”

[19:22]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and look.”

[19:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “the men of the city, men, the sons of wickedness.” The phrases are in apposition; the last phrase specifies what type of men they were. It is not certain if all the men of the city are in view, or just a group of troublemakers. In 20:5 the town leaders are implicated in the crime, suggesting that all the men of the city were involved. If so, the implication is that the entire male population of the town were good-for-nothings.

[19:22]  ²² tn The Hitpael verb form appears to have an iterative force here, indicating repeated action.

[19:22]  ²³ tn Heb “so we can know him.” On the surface one might think they simply wanted to meet the visitor and get to know him, but their hostile actions betray their double-talk. The old man, who has been living with them long enough to know what they are like, seems to have no doubts about the meaning of their words (see v. 23).

[20:42]  ²⁴ tn Heb “clung to”; or “stuck close.”

[20:42]  ²⁵ tn Heb “and those from the cities were striking them down in their midst.”