Judges 6:3
6:3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, 1 the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them. 2
Judges 6:13
6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, 3 but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster 4 overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 5 ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
1 tn Heb “Whenever Israel sowed seed.”
2 tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east would go up, they would go up against him.” The translation assumes that וְעָלוּ (vÿ’alu) is dittographic (note the following עָלָיו, ’alayv).
3 tn Heb “But my lord.”
4 tn Heb “all this.”
5 tn Heb “saying.”