Judges 11:34-35

11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ¹  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ²  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter. 11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! ³  You have brought me disaster! ⁴  I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” ⁵ 

Judges 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River ⁶  opposite Ephraim. ⁷  Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive ⁸  said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked ⁹  him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Judges 19:1

Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited

19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite ¹⁰  living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine ¹¹  from Bethlehem ¹²  in Judah.

Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹³  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ¹⁴ 

Judges 19:23

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

Judges 20:39

20:39 the Israelites counterattacked. ¹⁵  Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; ¹⁶  they struck down ¹⁷  about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

Judges 21:8

21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ¹⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”

² tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”

³ tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

⁴ tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

⁵ tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

⁶ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷ tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

⁸ tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

⁹ tn Heb “say to.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”

¹¹ sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.

¹² map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹³ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “turned in the battle.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”

¹⁷ tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁸ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”