Judges 18:19

18:19 They said to him, “Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser ¹  and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?” ² 

Judges 18:30

18:30 The Danites worshiped ³  the carved image. Jonathan, descendant ⁴  of Gershom, son of Moses, ⁵  and his descendants ⁶  served as priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the exile.

Judges 20:10

20:10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. ⁷  When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.” ⁸ 

Judges 21:5

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ⁹ 

Judges 21:8

21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ¹⁰ 

[18:19]  ¹ tn See the note on the word “adviser” in 17:10.

[18:19]  ² tn Heb “Is it better for you to be priest for the house of one man or for you to be priest for a tribe, for a clan in Israel?”

[18:30]  ³ tn Heb “erected for themselves.”

[18:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “son.”

[18:30]  ⁵ tc Several ancient textual witnesses, including some LXX mss and the Vulgate, support the reading “Moses” (מֹשֶׁה, mosheh) here. Many Hebrew mss have a nun (נ) suspended above the name between the first two letters (מנשׁה), suggesting the name Manasseh (מְנַשֶּׁה, mÿnasheh). This is probably a scribal attempt to protect Moses’ reputation. For discussion, see G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 401-2.

[18:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “sons.”

[20:10]  ⁵ tn Or “people.”

[20:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”

[21:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”

[21:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”