1 tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”
2 tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”
3 tn Or “dedicated to the
4 tn Heb “messengers.”
5 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.
6 tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.