Judges 9:1

Abimelech Murders His Brothers

9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family,

Judges 18:29

18:29 They named it Dan after their ancestor, who was one of Israel’s sons. But the city’s name used to be Laish.

Judges 19:2

19:2 However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

tn Heb “brothers.”

tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”

tn Heb “They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who had been born to Israel.”

tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).

tn Heb “went from him.”