Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ¹  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ²  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 2:14

2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel ³  and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. ⁴  He turned them over to ⁵  their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. ⁶ 

Judges 4:11

4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had moved away ⁷  from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived ⁸  near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

Judges 10:1

Stability Restored

10:1 After Abimelech’s death, ⁹  Tola son of Puah, grandson ¹⁰  of Dodo, from the tribe of Issachar, ¹¹  rose up to deliver Israel. He lived in Shamir in the Ephraimite hill country.

Judges 11:21

11:21 The Lord God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took ¹²  all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.

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¹ tn Or “fathers.”

² tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

³ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

⁴ tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

sn The expression robbers who plundered them is a derogatory reference to the enemy nations, as the next line indicates.

⁵ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

⁶ tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn Or “separated.”

⁸ tn Heb “pitched his tent.”

⁹ tn The word “death” has been supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁰ tn Heb “son.”

¹¹ tn Heb “a man of Issachar.”

¹² tn That is, took as its own possession.