Judges 1:35

1:35 The Amorites managed¹ to remain in Har Heres,² Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily,³ the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.

Judges 4:5

4:5 She would sit⁴ under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel⁵ in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled.⁶

Judges 8:35--9:1

8:35 They did not treat⁷ the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.

Abimelech Murders His Brothers

9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives.⁸ He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family,⁹

Judges 9:6

9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar¹⁰ in Shechem.

Judges 9:27

9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes,¹¹ squeezed out the juice,¹² and celebrated. They came to the temple¹³ of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 17:5

17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine.¹⁴ He made an ephod¹⁵ and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.¹⁶

Judges 17:8

17:8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house.¹⁷

Judges 18:18

18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole¹⁸ the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:22

18:22 After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors¹⁹ gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Judges 18:31

18:31 They worshiped²⁰ Micah’s carved image²¹ the whole time God’s authorized shrine²² was in Shiloh.

Judges 19:26

19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master²³ was staying until it became light.²⁴

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel²⁵ and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably.²⁶

¹tn Or “were determined.”

²tn Or “Mount Heres”; the term הַר (har) means “mount” or “mountain” in Hebrew.

³tn Heb “Whenever the hand of the tribe of Joseph was heavy.”

⁴tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

⁵map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁶tn Heb “for judgment.”

⁷tn Heb “did not do loyalty with,” or “did not act faithfully toward.”

¹⁰tn Heb “brothers.”

¹¹tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”

¹³tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).

¹⁶tn Heb “vineyards.”

¹⁷tn Heb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-14.

¹⁸tn Heb “house.”

¹⁹tn Heb “house of God.”

²⁰sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

²¹tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”

²²tn Heb “He came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, making his way.”

²⁵tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

²⁸tn Heb “the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house.”

³¹tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

³²tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

³³tn Heb “the house of God.”

³⁴tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

³⁵tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

³⁷map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

³⁸tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.