Judges 11:16

11:16 When they left ¹  Egypt, Israel traveled ²  through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.

Judges 5:17

5:17 Gilead stayed put ³  beyond the Jordan River.

As for Dan – why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards? ⁴ 

Asher remained ⁵  on the seacoast,

he stayed ⁶  by his harbors. ⁷ 

Judges 7:12

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ⁸  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

[11:16]  ¹ tn Heb “For when they went up from.”

[11:16]  ² tn Or “went.”

[5:17]  ³ tn Heb “lived” or “settled down.”

[5:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “Dan, why did he live as a resident alien, ships.” The verb גּוּר (gur) usually refers to taking up residence outside one’s native land. Perhaps the Danites, rather than rallying to Barak, were content to move to the Mediterranean coast and work in the shipyards. For further discussion, see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 262.

[5:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “lived.”

[5:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “lived” or “settled down.”

[5:17]  ⁷ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִפְרָץ (mifrats) is uncertain, but the parallelism (note “seacoast”) suggests “harbors.”

[7:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”