3:18 After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it. 2
21:15 The people regretted what had happened to 3 Benjamin because the Lord had weakened 4 the Israelite tribes.
1 tn Heb “they went from there against the inhabitants of Debir.” The LXX reads the verb as “they went up,” which suggests that the Hebrew text translated by the LXX read וַיַּעַל (vayya’al) rather than the MT’s וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh). It is possible that this is the text to be preferred in v. 11. Cf. Josh 15:15.
2 tn Heb “the tribute payment.”
3 tn Or “felt sorry for.”
4 tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.