Hakim-hakim 2:17

2:17 But they did not obey ¹  their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped ²  them. They quickly turned aside from the path ³  their ancestors ⁴  had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord’s commands, but they did not. ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 6:11

Gideon Meets Some Visitors

6:11 The Lord’s angelic messenger ⁶  came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon ⁷  was threshing ⁸  wheat in a winepress ⁹  so he could hide it from the Midianites. ¹⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 10:6

The Lord’s Patience Runs Short

10:6 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹¹  They worshiped ¹²  the Baals and the Ashtars, ¹³  as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, ¹⁴  Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. ¹⁵  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship ¹⁶  him.

Hakim-hakim 11:36

11:36 She said to him, “My father, since ¹⁷  you made an oath to the Lord, do to me as you promised. ¹⁸  After all, the Lord vindicated you before ¹⁹  your enemies, the Ammonites.”

Hakim-hakim 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. ²⁰  He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Hakim-hakim 14:6

14:6 The Lord’s spirit empowered ²¹  him and he tore the lion ²²  in two with his bare hands ²³  as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Hakim-hakim 18:3

18:3 As they approached ²⁴  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ²⁵  of the young Levite. So they stopped ²⁶  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ²⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ²⁸  said to their kinsmen, ²⁹  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Hakim-hakim 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ³⁰  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ³¹  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Hakim-hakim 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight ³²  said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since ³³  the Israelites left the land of Egypt! ³⁴  Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

Hakim-hakim 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. ³⁵  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ³⁶  They went home ³⁷  to their own territory, ³⁸  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ³⁹ 

[2:17]  ¹ tn Or “did not listen to.”

[2:17]  ² tn Or “bowed before.”

[2:17]  ³ tn Or “way [of life].”

[2:17]  ⁴ tn Or “fathers.”

[2:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “…walked, obeying the Lord’s commands. They did not do this.”

[6:11]  ⁶ tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive.

[6:11]  sn The Lord’s angelic messenger is also mentioned in Judg 2:1.

[6:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “Now Gideon his son…” The Hebrew circumstantial clause (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + predicate) breaks the narrative sequence and indicates that the angel’s arrival coincided with Gideon’s threshing.

[6:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “beating out.”

[6:11]  ⁹ sn Threshing wheat in a winepress. One would normally thresh wheat at the threshing floor outside the city. Animals and a threshing sledge would be employed. Because of the Midianite threat, Gideon was forced to thresh with a stick in a winepress inside the city. For further discussion see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 63.

[6:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Midian.”

[10:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

[10:6]  ¹² tn Or “served;” or “followed.”

[10:6]  ¹³ sn The Ashtars were local manifestations of the goddess Ashtar (i.e., Astarte).

[10:6]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[10:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines.”

[10:6]  ¹⁶ tn Or “serve”; or “follow.”

[11:36]  ¹⁷ tn The conjunction “since” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:36]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “you opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to [what] went out from your mouth.”

[11:36]  ¹⁹ tn Or “has given you vengeance against.”

[13:23]  ²⁰ tn Heb “our hand.”

[14:6]  ²¹ tn Heb “rushed on.”

[14:6]  ²² tn Heb “him” or “it”; the referent (the lion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:6]  ²³ tn Heb “and there was nothing in his hand.”

[18:3]  ²⁴ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

[18:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

[18:14]  ²⁸ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

[18:14]  ²⁹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[19:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ³¹ tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

[19:30]  ³² tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[19:30]  ³³ tn Heb “from the day.”

[19:30]  ³⁴ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”

[21:23]  ³⁵ tn Heb “did so.”

[21:23]  ³⁶ tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

[21:23]  ³⁷ tn Heb “went and returned.”

[21:23]  ³⁸ tn Heb “inheritance.”

[21:23]  ³⁹ tn Heb “and lived in them.”