Judges 3:7

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. 1  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. 2 

Judges 5:3

5:3 Hear, O kings!

Pay attention, O rulers!

I will sing to the Lord! 3 

I will sing 4  to the Lord God of Israel!

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, 5  so the Lord turned them over to 6  Midian for seven years.

Judges 10:16

10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned 7  and worshiped 8  the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. 9 

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, 10  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

1 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

2 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

3 tn Heb “I, to the Lord, I, I will sing!” The first singular personal pronoun is used twice, even though a first person finite verbal form is employed.

4 tn Or “make music.”

5 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

6 tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

7 tn Heb “from their midst.”

8 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

9 tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).

10 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”