Judges 10:16

10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned ¹  and worshiped ²  the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. ³ 

Judges 17:5

17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. ⁴  He made an ephod ⁵  and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “from their midst.”

² tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

³ tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).

⁴ tn Heb “house of God.”

⁵ sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

⁶ tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”