Judges 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ¹  food scraps ²  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ³  They brought him to Jerusalem, ⁴  where he died.

Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ⁵  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ⁶  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 6:8

6:8 he ⁷  sent a prophet ⁸  to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt ⁹  and took you out of that place of slavery. ¹⁰ 

Judges 7:5

7:5 So he brought the men ¹¹  down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.” ¹² 

Judges 11:35

11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! ¹³  You have brought me disaster! ¹⁴  I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” ¹⁵ 

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ¹⁶  went down and brought him back. ¹⁷  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ¹⁸  Israel for twenty years.

Judges 18:3

18:3 As they approached ¹⁹  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ²⁰  of the young Levite. So they stopped ²¹  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ²² 

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ²³  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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¹ tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

² tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

³ tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

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⁵ tn Or “fathers.”

⁶ tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

⁷ tn Heb “the Lord”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁸ tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.

⁹ tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).

¹⁰ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the people.”

¹² tn Heb “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, put him by himself, as well as the one who gets down on his knees to drink.”

¹³ tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

¹⁴ tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

¹⁸ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

¹⁹ tn Or “When they were near.”

²⁰ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

²¹ tn Heb “turned aside.”

²² tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

²³ tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”