1:29 The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.
9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 4
1 tn Heb “The hand of the Israelites became more and more severe against.”
2 tn Heb “cut off.”
3 tn Heb “Jabin king of Canaan.” The proper name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”
5 tn The Niphal of נָקָם (naqam, “to avenge, to take vengeance”) followed by the preposition ב (bet) has the force “to get revenge against.” See 1 Sam 18:25; Jer 50:15; Ezek 25:12.
6 tn Heb “and afterward I will stop.”
7 tn Heb “They came to their brothers.”
8 tn Heb “brothers.”
9 tn Heb “What you?”