Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ¹  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ²  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ³  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁴  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ⁵ 

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ⁶  said to their kinsmen, ⁷  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ⁸  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ⁹ 

Judges 20:45

20:45 The rest ¹⁰  turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites ¹¹  caught ¹²  five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels ¹³  all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

[18:7]  ¹ tn Or “went.”

[18:7]  ² tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

[18:7]  ³ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

[18:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

[18:7]  ⁵ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.

[18:14]  ⁶ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

[18:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “brothers.”

[18:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

[18:17]  ¹² tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

[20:45]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.

[20:45]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “stuck close after them.”