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 7:22

7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords ⁴  throughout ⁵  the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went ⁶  to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

Hakim-hakim 15:12

15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me ⁷  you will not kill ⁸  me.”

Hakim-hakim 16:9

16:9 They hid ⁹  in the bedroom and then she said to him, “The Philistines are here, ¹⁰  Samson!” He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. ¹¹  The secret of his strength was not discovered. ¹² 

Hakim-hakim 16:12

16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, ¹³  Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) ¹⁴  But he tore the ropes ¹⁵  from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

Hakim-hakim 16:20

16:20 She said, “The Philistines are here, ¹⁶  Samson!” He woke up ¹⁷  and thought, ¹⁸  “I will do as I did before ¹⁹  and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the Lord had left him.

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 20:42

20:42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook ²⁰  them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. ²¹ 

Hakim-hakim 21:8

21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ²² 

[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.”

[7:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord set the sword of each one against his friend.”

[7:22]  ⁵ tc MT has “and throughout the camp,” but the conjunction (“and”) is due to dittography and should be dropped. Compare the ancient versions, which lack the conjunction here.

[7:22]  ⁶ tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[15:12]  ⁷ tn Or “swear to me.”

[15:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.

[16:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting for her.” The grammatically singular form וְהָאֹרֵב (vÿha’orev) is collective here, referring to the rulers as a group (so also in v. 16).

[16:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “are upon you.”

[16:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “when it smells fire.”

[16:9]  ¹² tn Heb “His strength was not known.”

[16:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “are upon you.”

[16:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “And the ones lying in wait were sitting in the bedroom.”

[16:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the ropes) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “are upon you.”

[16:20]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew adds, “from his sleep.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and said.”

[16:20]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I will go out as before.”

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

[20:42]  ²¹ tn Heb “and those from the cities were striking them down in their midst.”

[21:8]  ²² tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”