Discovery BoxJudges 1:7
Context1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up 1 food scraps 2 under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” 3 They brought him to Jerusalem, 4 where he died.
Judges 1:15
Context1:15 She answered, “Please give me a special present. 5 Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs. 6
Judges 2:1
Context2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger 7 went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. 8 I said, ‘I will never break my agreement 9 with you,
Judges 7:8
Context7:8 The men 10 who were chosen 11 took supplies 12 and their trumpets. Gideon 13 sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; 14 he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites 15 were camped down below 16 in the valley.
Judges 7:14
Context7:14 The other man said, 17 “Without a doubt this symbolizes 18 the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”
Judges 9:45
Context9:45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled 19 the city and spread salt over it. 20
Judges 9:49
Context9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches 21 against the stronghold and set fire to it. 22 All the people 23 of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.
Judges 10:18
Context10:18 The leaders 24 of Gilead said to one another, “Who is willing to lead the charge 25 against the Ammonites? He will become the leader of all who live in Gilead!”
Judges 11:11
Context11:11 So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander. Jephthah repeated the terms of the agreement 26 before the Lord in Mizpah.
Judges 11:33
Context11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! 27 The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. 28
Judges 13:7
Context13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. 29 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 30 For the child will be dedicated 31 to God from birth till the day he dies.’”
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 32 and gave them 33 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 34
Judges 16:3
Context16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. 35 He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. 36 He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. 37
Judges 16:31
Context16:31 His brothers and all his family 38 went down and brought him back. 39 They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led 40 Israel for twenty years.
Judges 19:30
Context19:30 Everyone who saw the sight 41 said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since 42 the Israelites left the land of Egypt! 43 Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”
Judges 20:23
Context20:23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we 44 again march out to fight 45 the Benjaminites, our brothers?” 46 The Lord said, “Attack them!” 47
Judges 20:48
Context20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 48 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 49 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 50
[1:7] 1 tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.
[1:7] 2 tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
[1:7] 3 tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.
[1:7] 4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
[1:15] 5 tn Elsewhere the Hebrew word בְרָכָה (vÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).
[1:15] 6 tn Some translations regard the expressions “springs of water” (גֻּלֹּת מָיִם, gullot mayim) and “springs” (גֻּלֹּת) as place names here (cf. NRSV).
[2:1] 9 sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.
[2:1] 10 tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”
[2:1] 11 tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).
[7:8] 14 tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[7:8] 15 tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”
[7:8] 16 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[7:8] 19 tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).
[7:14] 17 tn Heb “answered and said.”
[7:14] 18 tn Heb “This can be nothing but.”
[9:45] 22 tn Heb “sowed it with salt.”
[9:49] 25 tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[9:49] 26 tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”
[9:49] 27 tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.
[10:18] 29 tn Heb “the people, the officers.”
[10:18] 30 tn Heb “Who is the man who will begin fighting.”
[11:11] 33 tn Heb “spoke all his words.” This probably refers to the “words” recorded in v. 9. Jephthah repeats the terms of the agreement at the
[11:33] 37 tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”
[11:33] 38 tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”
[13:7] 41 tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.
[13:7] 42 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
[13:7] 43 tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”
[14:19] 45 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
[14:19] 46 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
[14:19] 47 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”
[16:3] 49 tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”
[16:3] 50 tn Heb “with the bar.”
[16:3] 51 tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”
[16:31] 53 tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”
[16:31] 54 tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”
[16:31] 55 tn Traditionally, “judged.”
[19:30] 57 tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[19:30] 58 tn Heb “from the day.”
[19:30] 59 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”
[20:23] 61 tn Heb “I” (collective singular).
[20:23] 62 tn Heb “approach for battle.”
[20:23] 63 tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).
[20:23] 64 tn Heb “Go up against him” (collective singular).
[20:48] 65 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
[20:48] 66 tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
[20:48] 67 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
