18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place 2 to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. 3
19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite 4 living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine 5 from Bethlehem 6 in Judah.
1 tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”
2 tn Heb “an inheritance.”
3 tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”
4 tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”
5 sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.
6 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.