Discovery BoxJudges 12:1-3
Context12:1 The Ephraimites assembled 1 and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight 2 with the Ammonites without asking 3 us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!” 4
12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. 5 I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. 6 12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, 7 I risked my life 8 and advanced against 9 the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up 10 to fight with me today?”
[12:1] 1 tn Heb “the men of Ephraim were summoned [or “were mustered”].”
[12:1] 2 tn Heb “cross over to fight.”
[12:1] 3 tn Or “calling”; or “summoning.”
[12:1] 4 tn Heb “Your house we will burn over you with fire.”
[12:2] 5 tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”
[12:3] 7 tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”
[12:3] 8 tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”
[12:3] 9 tn Heb “crossed over to.”
[12:3] 10 tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
