Judges 18:5

18:5 They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us,¹ so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”²

Judges 21:7

21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left?³ After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

Judges 21:18

21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them,⁴ for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’⁵

Judges 9:28

9:28 Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed?⁶ Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech?⁷

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate⁸ him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite⁹ said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem¹⁰ in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home.¹¹ But no one has invited me into their home.

¹tn Heb “Ask God.”

²tn Heb “so we can know if our way on which we are going will be successful.”

³tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”

⁵tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”

⁶tn Heb “is cursed.”

⁷tn Heb “and Zebul his appointee.”

⁸tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abimelech) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

¹¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹²map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹³tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”