Judges 10:17

An Outcast Becomes a General

10:17 The Ammonites assembled ¹  and camped in Gilead; the Israelites gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

Judges 4:3

4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ²  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ³  and he cruelly ⁴  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

[10:17]  ¹ tn Or “were summoned;” or “were mustered.”

[4:3]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:3]  ³ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

[4:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “with strength.”