Judges 12:2

12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. ¹  I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. ² 

Judges 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River ³  opposite Ephraim. ⁴  Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive ⁵  said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked ⁶  him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Judges 20:23

20:23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we ⁷  again march out to fight ⁸  the Benjaminites, our brothers?” ⁹  The Lord said, “Attack them!” ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹ 

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. ¹² 

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¹ tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”

² tn Heb “hand.”

³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴ tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

⁵ tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

⁶ tn Heb “say to.”

⁷ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

⁸ tn Heb “approach for battle.”

⁹ tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).

¹⁰ tn Heb “Go up against him” (collective singular).

¹¹ 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.’”

¹² tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”