Judges 12:12

12:12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

Judges 4:11

4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away ¹  from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived ²  near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

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 pillar ³  in Shechem.

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ⁴  of the land. A unit ⁵  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ⁶ 

¹ tn Or “separated.”

² tn Heb “pitched his tent.”

¹ tc 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).

¹ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

² tn Heb “head.”

³ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.