19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite 6 living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine 7 from Bethlehem 8 in Judah.
1 tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”
2 tn Heb “When you enter.”
3 tn Heb “you will come to.”
4 tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”
5 tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
3 tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”
4 sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.
5 map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.