Judges 2:6

The End of an Era

2:6 When Joshua dismissed ¹  the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, ²  intending to take possession of the land.

Judges 9:55

9:55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home. ³ 

Judges 18:21

18:21 They turned and went on their way, but they walked behind the children, the cattle, and their possessions. ⁴ 

Judges 19:14

19:14 So they traveled on, ⁵  and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ⁶ 

Judges 9:4

9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous ⁷  men as his followers. ⁸ 

Judges 9:6

9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar ⁹  in Shechem.

Judges 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked, ¹⁰  the leaders ¹¹  of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back ¹²  from the land of Tob.

Judges 18:26

18:26 The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized ¹³  they were too strong to resist, ¹⁴  he turned around and went home.

Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ¹⁵  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ¹⁶  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches ¹⁷  against the stronghold and set fire to it. ¹⁸  All the people ¹⁹  of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ²⁰  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ²¹  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ²²  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ²³  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ²⁴ 

Judges 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. ²⁵  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ²⁶  They went home ²⁷  to their own territory, ²⁸  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ²⁹ 

[2:6]  ¹ tn Or “sent away.”

[2:6]  ² tn Heb “the Israelites went each to his inheritance.”

[9:55]  ³ tn Heb “each to his own place.”

[18:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “They turned and went and put the children, the cattle, and the possessions in front of them.”

[19:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”

[19:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

[9:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

[9:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and they followed him.”

[9:6]  ¹¹ tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).

[11:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

[11:5]  ¹⁴ tn Or “elders.”

[11:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

[18:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “saw.”

[18:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they were stronger than he.”

[2:12]  ¹⁷ tn Or “fathers.”

[2:12]  ¹⁸ tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

[9:49]  ¹⁹ tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:49]  ²⁰ tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

[9:49]  ²¹ tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.

[18:7]  ²¹ tn Or “went.”

[18:7]  ²² tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

[18:7]  ²³ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

[18:7]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

[18:7]  ²⁵ 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.

[21:23]  ²³ tn Heb “did so.”

[21:23]  ²⁴ tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

[21:23]  ²⁵ tn Heb “went and returned.”

[21:23]  ²⁶ tn Heb “inheritance.”

[21:23]  ²⁷ tn Heb “and lived in them.”