Judges 3:7

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. ² 

Judges 6:17

6:17 Gideon ³  said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, ⁴  then give me ⁵  a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

Judges 10:15

10:15 But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, ⁶  but deliver us today!” ⁷ 

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁸  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 16:21

16:21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

Judges 19:17

19:17 When he looked up and saw the traveler ⁹  in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

² sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “If I have found favor in your eyes.”

⁵ tn Heb “perform for me.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to all whatever is good in your eyes.”

⁶ sn You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today. The request seems contradictory, but it can be explained in one of two ways. They may be asking for relief from their enemies and direct discipline from God’s hand. Or they may mean, “In the future you can do whatever you like to us, but give us relief from what we’re suffering right now.”

⁷ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁹ tn Heb “the man, the traveler.”