Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite ¹  said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem ²  in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. ³  But no one has invited me into their home.

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 “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

³ tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”

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.”