9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. 4 He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, 5
12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. 7 I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. 8
1 tn Or “look.”
2 tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”
3 tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”
3 tn Heb “brothers.”
4 tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”
4 tn Heb “came.”
5 tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”
6 tn Heb “hand.”
6 tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”