Judges 2:6

The End of an Era

2:6 When Joshua dismissed¹ the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory,² intending to take possession of the land.

Judges 9:55

9:55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.³

Judges 18:21

18:21 They turned and went on their way, but they walked behind the children, the cattle, and their possessions.⁴

Judges 19:14

19:14 So they traveled on,⁵ and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.⁶

Judges 9:4

9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous⁷ men as his followers.⁸

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 pillar⁹ in Shechem.

Judges 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked,¹⁰ the leaders¹¹ of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back¹² from the land of Tob.

Judges 18:26

18:26 The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized¹³ they were too strong to resist,¹⁴ he turned around and went home.

Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors¹⁵ who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped¹⁶ them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches¹⁷ against the stronghold and set fire to it.¹⁸ All the people¹⁹ of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on²⁰ and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there²¹ were living securely, like the Sidonians do,²² undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way.²³ They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.²⁴

Judges 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed.²⁵ They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives.²⁶ They went home²⁷ to their own territory,²⁸ rebuilt their cities, and settled down.²⁹

¹tn Or “sent away.”

²tn Heb “the Israelites went each to his inheritance.”

³tn Heb “each to his own place.”

⁵tn Heb “They turned and went and put the children, the cattle, and the possessions in front of them.”

⁷tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”

⁸tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

⁹tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and they followed him.”

¹¹tc 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).

¹³tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

¹⁴tn Or “elders.”

¹⁵tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

¹⁵tn Heb “saw.”

¹⁶tn Heb “they were stronger than he.”

¹⁷tn Or “fathers.”

¹⁸tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

¹⁹tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁰tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

²¹tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.

²¹tn Or “went.”

²²tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

²³tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

²⁴tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

²⁵tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.

²³tn Heb “did so.”

²⁴tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

²⁵tn Heb “went and returned.”

²⁶tn Heb “inheritance.”

²⁷tn Heb “and lived in them.”