Judges 11:17

11:17 Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please allow us ¹  to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. ²  Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. ³  So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. ⁴  He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

[11:17]  ¹ tn Heb “me.” (Collective Israel is the speaker.)

[11:17]  ² tn Heb “did not listen.”

[11:17]  ³ tn Heb “Also to the king of Moab he sent, but he was unwilling.”

[13:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “our hand.”