Judges 2:1

Confrontation and Repentance at Bokim

2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger ¹  went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. ²  I said, ‘I will never break my agreement ³  with you,

Judges 6:8

6:8 he ⁴  sent a prophet ⁵  to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt ⁶  and took you out of that place of slavery. ⁷ 

Judges 6:13

6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, ⁸  but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster ⁹  overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ¹⁰  ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Judges 11:13

11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole ¹¹  my land when they ¹²  came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. ¹³  Now return it ¹⁴  peaceably!”

[2:1]  ¹ sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.

[2:1]  ² tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”

[2:1]  ³ tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).

[6:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[6:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

[6:8]  ⁶ tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).

[6:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

[6:13]  ⁷ tn Heb “But my lord.”

[6:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “all this.”

[6:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “saying.”

[11:13]  ¹⁰ tn Or “took”; or “seized.”

[11:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).

[11:13]  ¹² tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

[11:13]  ¹³ tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.