Judges 2:20

A Divine Decision

2:20 The Lord was furious with Israel.¹ He said, “This nation² has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors³ by disobeying me.⁴

Judges 6:26

6:26 Then build an altar for the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern.⁵ Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

Judges 8:1

8:1 The Ephraimites said to him, “Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us⁶ when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.

Judges 8:3

8:3 It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?”⁷ When he said this, they calmed down.⁸

Judges 10:4

10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair⁹ – they are in the land of Gilead.¹⁰

Judges 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish.¹¹ For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”¹²

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help,¹³ I risked my life¹⁴ and advanced against¹⁵ the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up¹⁶ to fight with me today?”

Judges 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin¹⁷ at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength¹⁸ was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring¹⁹ En Hakkore.²⁰ It remains in Lehi to this very day.

Judges 16:28

16:28 Samson called to the Lord, “O Master, Lord,²¹ remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge²² against the Philistines for my two eyes!”

Judges 18:12

18:12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan.²³ It is west²⁴ of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 19:23-24

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing! 19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s²⁵ concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.²⁶ But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Judges 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight²⁷ said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since²⁸ the Israelites left the land of Egypt!²⁹ Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

¹tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

²tn Heb “Because this nation.”

³tn Heb “my covenant which I commanded their fathers.”

⁴tn Heb “and has not listened to my voice.” The expression “to not listen to [God’s] voice” is idiomatic here for disobeying him.

⁵tn Possibly “in a row” or “in a layer,” perhaps referring to the arrangement of the stones used in the altar’s construction.

⁹tn Heb “by not summoning us.”

¹³tn Heb “What was I able to do compared to you?”

¹⁴tn Heb “Then their spirits relaxed from against him, when he spoke this word.”

¹⁷sn The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.

¹⁸tn Heb “they call them Havvoth Jair to this day – which are in the land of Gilead.”

²¹tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

²²tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

²⁵tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

²⁶tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

²⁷tn Heb “crossed over to.”

²⁸tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

²⁹tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

³⁰tn Heb “spirit.”

³¹tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³²sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”

³³tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).

³⁴tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”

³⁷tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”

³⁸tn Heb “behind.”

⁴¹tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴²tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

⁴⁵tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴⁶tn Heb “from the day.”

⁴⁷tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”