1:22 When the men 1 of Joseph attacked 2 Bethel, 3 the Lord was with them.
8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. 6
1 tn Heb “house.” This is a metonymy for the warriors from the tribe.
2 tn Heb “went up.”
3 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.
4 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”
5 tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”
7 tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”