Judges 11:17

11:17 Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please allow us ¹  to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. ²  Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. ³  So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 11:20

11:20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He ⁴  assembled his whole army, ⁵  camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

[11:17]  ¹ tn Heb “me.” (Collective Israel is the speaker.)

[11:17]  ² tn Heb “did not listen.”

[11:17]  ³ tn Heb “Also to the king of Moab he sent, but he was unwilling.”

[11:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “Sihon.” The proper name (“Sihon”) has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) because of English style; a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant in English.

[11:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “all his people” (also in the following verse).