Hakim-hakim 6:25

Gideon Destroys the Altar

6:25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. ¹  Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Hakim-hakim 7:8

7:8 The men ²  who were chosen ³  took supplies ⁴  and their trumpets. Gideon ⁵  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ⁶  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ⁷  were camped down below ⁸  in the valley.

Hakim-hakim 15:6

15:6 The Philistines asked, ⁹  “Who did this?” They were told, ¹⁰  “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite ¹¹  took Samson’s ¹²  bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father. ¹³ 

[6:25]  ¹ tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar.

[7:8]  ² tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ³ tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

[7:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[15:6]  ⁹ tn Or “said.”

[15:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they said.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

[15:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Timnite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:6]  ¹² tn Heb “his”; the referent (Samson) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:6]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text expands the statement with the additional phrase “burned with fire.” The words “with fire” are redundant in English and have been omitted from the translation for stylistic reasons. Some textual witnesses read “burned…her father’s house,” perhaps under the influence of 14:15. On the other hand, the shorter text may have lost this phrase due to haplography.