Judges 7:24

Gideon Appeases the Ephraimites

7:24 Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, “Go down and head off the Midianites. ¹  Take control of the fords of the streams ²  all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.” ³  When all the Ephraimites had assembled, ⁴  they took control of the fords ⁵  all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ⁶  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ⁷  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ⁸ 

Judges 18:2

18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, ⁹  capable men ¹⁰  from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house. ¹¹ 

Judges 19:16

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ¹²  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ¹³ 

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite ¹⁴  said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem ¹⁵  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. ¹⁶  But no one has invited me into their home.

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¹ tn Heb “to meet Midian.”

² tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”

³ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification (also later in this verse).

⁴ tn Heb “And all the men of Ephraim were summoned.”

⁵ tn Heb “they captured the waters.”

⁶ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

⁷ tn Heb “with the bar.”

⁸ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

⁹ tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

¹¹ tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”

¹² tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

¹³ tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

¹⁶ 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.”