Judges 5:16

5:16 Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, ¹ 

listening to the shepherds playing their pipes ²  for their flocks? ³ 

As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.

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 ⁴  men as his followers. ⁵ 

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ⁶  his half-brothers ⁷  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ⁸ 

[5:16]  ¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (mishpÿtayim) is uncertain. Some understand the word to mean “campfires.”

[5:16]  ² tn Or “whistling.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

[9:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they followed him.”

[11:3]  ⁷ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”