Hakim-hakim 2:14

2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel ¹  and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. ²  He turned them over to ³  their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. ⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 3:10

3:10 The Lord’s spirit empowered him ⁵  and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him. ⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 3:15

3:15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ⁷  raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. ⁸  The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment. ⁹ 

Hakim-hakim 7:2

7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. ¹⁰  Israel might brag, ¹¹  ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ ¹² 

Hakim-hakim 15:18

15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant ¹³  this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” ¹⁴ 

Hakim-hakim 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ¹⁵  you will encounter ¹⁶  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ¹⁷  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ¹⁸ 

[2:14]  ¹ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

[2:14]  ² tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

[2:14]  sn The expression robbers who plundered them is a derogatory reference to the enemy nations, as the next line indicates.

[2:14]  ³ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

[2:14]  ⁴ tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[3:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “was on him.”

[3:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “his hand was strong against Cushan-Rishathaim.”

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” This has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:15]  ⁸ tn The phrase, which refers to Ehud, literally reads “bound/restricted in the right hand,” apparently a Hebrew idiom for a left-handed person. See Judg 20:16, where 700 Benjaminites are described in this way. Perhaps the Benjaminites purposely trained several of their young men to be left-handed warriors by restricting the use of the right hand from an early age so the left hand would become dominant. Left-handed men would have a distinct military advantage, especially when attacking city gates. See B. Halpern, “The Assassination of Eglon: The First Locked-Room Murder Mystery,” BRev 4 (1988): 35.

[3:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “The Israelites sent by his hand an offering to Eglon, king of Moab.”

[7:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the people who are with you are too numerous for me to give Midian into their hand.”

[7:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”

[7:2]  ¹² tn Heb “my hand has delivered me.”

[15:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”

[15:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.

[18:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”