1:29 The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.
1:34 The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in 1 the coastal plain.
13:2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. 10
21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”
1 tn Heb “come down into.”
1 tn The words “this is why” are interpretive.
2 tn Or “quickly.”
1 tn Heb “Peace to you.” For a similar use of this idiom to introduce a reassuring word, see Gen 43:23.
1 tn Heb “gleanings.”
2 sn Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest. Gideon employs an agricultural metaphor. He argues that Ephraim’s mopping up operations, though seemingly like the inferior grapes which are missed initially by the harvesters or left for the poor, are actually more noteworthy than the military efforts of Gideon’s family.
1 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”
1 tn Heb “did not listen to.”
2 tn Heb “Jephthah’s words which he sent to him.”
1 tn Heb “and had not given birth.”