Judges 11:17

11:17 Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please allow us ¹  to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. ²  Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. ³  So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Judges 20:45

20:45 The rest ⁴  turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites ⁵  caught ⁶  five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels ⁷  all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

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¹ tn Heb “me.” (Collective Israel is the speaker.)

² tn Heb “did not listen.”

³ tn Heb “Also to the king of Moab he sent, but he was unwilling.”

⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.

⁷ tn Heb “stuck close after them.”