Judges 1:14

1:14 One time Acsah ¹  came and charmed her father ²  so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Judges 4:19

4:19 He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Judges 8:5

8:5 He said to the men of Succoth, “Give ³  some loaves of bread to the men ⁴  who are following me, ⁵  because they are exhausted. I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

Judges 19:5

19:5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. ⁶  But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy, ⁷  then you can go.”

Judges 19:8

19:8 He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy. ⁸  Wait until later in the day to leave!” ⁹  So they ate a meal together.

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¹ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “him.” The pronoun could refer to Othniel, in which case one would translate, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 15. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18 // Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. The translation takes Caleb to be the referent, specified as “her father.”

³ tn Or perhaps, “sell.”

⁴ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because these were warriors and in ancient Israelite culture would have been exclusively males.

⁵ tn Heb “who are at my feet.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he arose to go.”

⁷ tn Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”

⁸ tn Heb “Sustain your heart.” He is once more inviting him to stay for a meal.

⁹ tn Heb “Wait until the declining of the day.”