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. ¹ 

Hakim-hakim 21:1

600 Brides for 600 Brothers

21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

1 Samuel 31:11

31:11 When the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Samuel 31:2

31:2 The Philistines stayed right on the heels ²  of Saul and his sons. They ³  struck down Saul’s sons Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua.

1 Samuel 2:4-5

2:4 The bows of warriors are shattered,

but those who stumble find their strength reinforced.

2:5 Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food,

but the hungry no longer lack.

Even ⁴  the barren woman gives birth to seven, ⁵ 

but the one with many children withers away. ⁶ 

[21:8]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”

[31:2]  ² tn Heb “stuck close after.”

[31:2]  ³ tn Heb “the Philistines.”

[2:5]  ⁴ tc Against BHS but with the MT, the preposition (עַד, ’ad) should be taken with what follows rather than with what precedes. For this sense of the preposition see Job 25:5.

[2:5]  ⁵ sn The number seven is used here in an ideal sense. Elsewhere in the OT having seven children is evidence of fertility as a result of God’s blessing on the family. See, for example, Jer 15:9, Ruth 4:15.

[2:5]  ⁶ tn Or “languishes.”