Judges 1:25
Context1:25 He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.
Judges 3:7
Context3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. 1 They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. 2
Judges 8:16
Context8:16 He seized the leaders 3 of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them. 4
Judges 11:24
Context11:24 You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us. 5


[3:7] 1 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
[3:7] 2 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.
[8:16] 2 tc The translation follows the reading of several ancient versions (LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) in assuming the form וַיָּדָשׁ (vayyadash) from the verb דּוֹשׁ (dosh, “thresh”) as in v. 7. The MT reads instead the form וַיֹּדַע (vayyoda’, “make known”), a Hiphil form of יָדַע (yadah). In this case one could translate, “he used them [i.e., the thorns and briers] to teach the men of Succoth a lesson.”
[11:24] 1 tn Heb “Is it not so that what Chemosh your god causes you to possess, you possess, and all whom the