Judges 1:22

Partial Success

1:22 When the men¹ of Joseph attacked² Bethel,³ the Lord was with them.

Judges 2:5

2:5 They named that place Bokim⁴ and offered sacrifices to the Lord there.

Judges 2:11

A Monotonous Cycle

2:11 The Israelites did evil before⁵ the Lord by worshiping⁶ the Baals.

Judges 2:16

2:16 The Lord raised up leaders⁷ who delivered them from these robbers.⁸

Judges 4:1

Deborah Summons Barak

4:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight⁹ after Ehud’s death.

Judges 6:7

6:7 When the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help because of Midian,

Judges 10:7

10:7 The Lord was furious with Israel¹⁰ and turned them over to¹¹ the Philistines and Ammonites.

Judges 11:32

11:32 Jephthah approached¹² the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him.

Judges 13:25

13:25 The Lord’s spirit began to control him¹³ in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 21:15

21:15 The people regretted what had happened to¹⁴ Benjamin because the Lord had weakened¹⁵ the Israelite tribes.

¹tn Heb “house.” This is a metonymy for the warriors from the tribe.

²tn Heb “went up.”

³map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁴sn Bokim means “weeping ones” and is derived from the Hebrew verb בָּכָא (bakha’, “to weep”).

⁵tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁶tn Or “serving”; or “following.”

⁷tn Or more traditionally, “judges” (also in vv. 17, 18 [3x], 19). Since these figures carried out more than a judicial function, also serving as rulers and (in several instances) as military commanders, the translation uses the term “leaders.”

⁸tn Heb “and they delivered them from the hand of the ones robbing them.”

⁹tn Heb “did evil in the eyes of the Lord.”

¹⁰tn Or “the Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

¹¹tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

¹²tn Heb “passed over to.”

¹³tn Or “move him to action”; or “stir him.”

¹⁴tn Or “felt sorry for.”

¹⁵tn Heb “had made a gaping hole in.” The narrator uses imagery that compares Israel to a wall that has been breached.