Judges 18:10
Context18:10 When you invade, 1 you will encounter 2 unsuspecting people. The land is wide! 3 God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” 4
Judges 20:48
Context20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 5 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 6 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 7


[18:10] 1 tn Heb “When you enter.”
[18:10] 2 tn Heb “you will come to.”
[18:10] 3 tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”
[18:10] 4 tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
[20:48] 5 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
[20:48] 6 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] 7 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”