Judges 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ¹  you will encounter ²  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ³  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ⁴ 

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ⁵  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁶  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “When you enter.”

² tn Heb “you will come to.”

³ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

⁴ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

⁵ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

⁶ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

⁷ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”