Judges 11:35-36

11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! ¹  You have brought me disaster! ²  I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” ³  11:36 She said to him, “My father, since ⁴  you made an oath to the Lord, do to me as you promised. ⁵  After all, the Lord vindicated you before ⁶  your enemies, the Ammonites.”

Judges 21:5

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ⁷ 

Judges 21:7

21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? ⁸  After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

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¹ tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

² tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

³ tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

⁴ tn The conjunction “since” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵ tn Heb “you opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to [what] went out from your mouth.”

⁶ tn Or “has given you vengeance against.”

⁷ tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”

⁸ tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”