Judges 1:35

1:35 The Amorites managed ¹  to remain in Har Heres, ²  Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily, ³  the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.

Judges 4:5

4:5 She would sit ⁴  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ⁵  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ⁶ 

Judges 8:35--9:1

8:35 They did not treat ⁷  the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.

Abimelech Murders His Brothers

9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. ⁸  He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, ⁹ 

Judges 9:6

9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar ¹⁰  in Shechem.

Judges 9:27

9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, ¹¹  squeezed out the juice, ¹²  and celebrated. They came to the temple ¹³  of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 17:5

17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. ¹⁴  He made an ephod ¹⁵  and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest. ¹⁶ 

Judges 17:8

17:8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house. ¹⁷ 

Judges 18:18

18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ¹⁸  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:22

18:22 After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors ¹⁹  gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Judges 18:31

18:31 They worshiped ²⁰  Micah’s carved image ²¹  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ²²  was in Shiloh.

Judges 19:26

19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master ²³  was staying until it became light. ²⁴ 

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ²⁵  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ²⁶ 

[1:35]  ¹ tn Or “were determined.”

[1:35]  ² tn Or “Mount Heres”; the term הַר (har) means “mount” or “mountain” in Hebrew.

[1:35]  ³ tn Heb “Whenever the hand of the tribe of Joseph was heavy.”

[4:5]  ⁴ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

[4:5]  ⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “for judgment.”

[8:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “did not do loyalty with,” or “did not act faithfully toward.”

[9:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “brothers.”

[9:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”

[9:6]  ¹³ tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).

[9:27]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “vineyards.”

[9:27]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-14.

[9:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[17:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “house of God.”

[17:5]  ²⁰ sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

[17:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”

[17:8]  ²² tn Heb “He came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, making his way.”

[18:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

[18:22]  ²⁸ tn Heb “the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house.”

[18:31]  ³¹ tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

[18:31]  ³² tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

[18:31]  ³³ tn Heb “the house of God.”

[19:26]  ³⁴ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[19:26]  ³⁵ tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

[21:2]  ³⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[21:2]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.