Judges 5:5

5:5 The mountains trembled ¹  before the Lord, the God of Sinai; ² 

before the Lord God of Israel.

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ³  so the Lord turned them over to ⁴  Midian for seven years.

Judges 6:12

6:12 The Lord’s messenger appeared and said to him, “The Lord is with you, courageous warrior!”

¹ tn Or “quaked.” The translation assumes the form נָזֹלּוּ (nazollu) from the root זָלַל (zalal, “to quake”; see HALOT 272 s.v. II זלל). The LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and the Targum also understood the word this way. (See Isa 63:19 and 64:2 for other occurrences of this form.) Some understand here the verb נָזַל (nazul, “to flow [with torrents of rain water]”).

² tn Heb “this one of Sinai.” The phrase is a divine title, perhaps indicating that the Lord rules from Sinai.

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁴ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”