Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ¹  so the Lord turned them over to ²  Midian for seven years.

Judges 11:32

11:32 Jephthah approached ³  the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him.

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁴  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

Judges 2:14

2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel ⁵  and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. ⁶  He turned them over to ⁷  their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. ⁸ 

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, ⁹  I risked my life ¹⁰  and advanced against ¹¹  the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up ¹²  to fight with me today?”

¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

² tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

³ tn Heb “passed over to.”

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁷ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

⁸ tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

⁹ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

¹⁰ tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁹ tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

¹¹ tn Heb “crossed over to.”

¹² tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.