Hakim-hakim 4:21

4:21 Then Jael wife of Heber took a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other. ¹  She crept up on him, drove the tent peg through his temple into the ground ²  while he was asleep from exhaustion, ³  and he died.

Hakim-hakim 13:7

13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. ⁴  So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ⁵  For the child will be dedicated ⁶  to God from birth till the day he dies.’”

Hakim-hakim 19:10

19:10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left ⁷  and traveled as far as ⁸  Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). ⁹  He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. ¹⁰ 

[4:21]  ¹ tn Heb “took a tent peg and put a hammer in her hand.”

[4:21]  ² tn Heb “and it went into the ground.”

[4:21]  ³ 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.”

[13:7]  ⁴ tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.

[13:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

[13:7]  ⁶ tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”

[19:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he arose and went.”

[19:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “to the front of.”

[19:10]  ⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:10]  ¹⁰ tc Some ancient witnesses add “and his servant.”