Judges 1:33

1:33 The men of Naphtali did not conquer the people living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath. ¹  They live among the Canaanites residing in the land. The Canaanites ²  living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were forced to do hard labor for them.

Judges 2:1

Confrontation and Repentance at Bokim

2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger ³  went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. ⁴  I said, ‘I will never break my agreement ⁵  with you,

Judges 11:13

11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole ⁶  my land when they ⁷  came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. ⁸  Now return it ⁹  peaceably!”

Judges 11:17

11:17 Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please allow us ¹⁰  to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. ¹¹  Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. ¹²  So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ¹³  said to their kinsmen, ¹⁴  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ¹⁵  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ¹⁶ 

Judges 21:21

21:21 and keep your eyes open. ¹⁷  When you see ¹⁸  the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, ¹⁹  jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

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¹ tn Heb “the people living in Beth Shemesh or the people living in Beth Anath.”

² tn The term “Canaanites” is supplied here both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

³ sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.

⁴ tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”

⁵ tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).

⁶ tn Or “took”; or “seized.”

⁷ tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).

⁸ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

⁹ tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.

¹⁰ tn Heb “me.” (Collective Israel is the speaker.)

¹¹ tn Heb “did not listen.”

¹² tn Heb “Also to the king of Moab he sent, but he was unwilling.”

¹³ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and look.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “and look, when.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “in the dances.”