Discovery BoxJudges 1:14 
Context1:14 One time Acsah 1 came and charmed her father 2 so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
Judges 2:2
Context2:2 but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ 3 But you have disobeyed me. 4 Why would you do such a thing? 5
Judges 2:19
Context2:19 When a leader died, the next generation 6 would again 7 act more wickedly than the previous one. 8 They would follow after other gods, worshiping them 9 and bowing down to them. They did not give up 10 their practices or their stubborn ways.
Judges 4:14
Context4:14 Deborah said to Barak, “Spring into action, 11 for this is the day the Lord is handing Sisera over to you! 12 Has the Lord not taken the lead?” 13 Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
Judges 5:14
Context5:14 They came from Ephraim, who uprooted Amalek, 14
they follow 15 after you, Benjamin, with your soldiers.
From Makir leaders came down,
from Zebulun came 16 the ones who march carrying 17 an officer’s staff.
Judges 6:32
Context6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, 18 because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”
Judges 7:5
Context7:5 So he brought the men 19 down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.” 20
Judges 7:8
Context7:8 The men 21 who were chosen 22 took supplies 23 and their trumpets. Gideon 24 sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; 25 he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites 26 were camped down below 27 in the valley.
Judges 7:11
Context7:11 and listen to what they are saying. Then you will be brave 28 and attack the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to where the sentries were guarding the camp. 29
Judges 8:14
Context8:14 He captured a young man from Succoth 30 and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. 31
Judges 9:36
Context9:36 Gaal saw the men 32 and said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadows on the hills – it just looks like men.” 33
Judges 9:43-44
Context9:43 he took his men 34 and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, 35 he attacked and struck them down. 36 9:44 Abimelech and his units 37 attacked and blocked 38 the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.
Judges 12:1
Context12:1 The Ephraimites assembled 39 and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight 40 with the Ammonites without asking 41 us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!” 42
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 43 and gave them 44 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 45
Judges 15:12
Context15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me 46 you will not kill 47 me.”
Judges 16:31
Context16:31 His brothers and all his family 48 went down and brought him back. 49 They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led 50 Israel for twenty years.
Judges 18:27
Context18:27 Now the Danites 51 took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city. 52
Judges 19:6
Context19:6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. 53 Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!” 54
Judges 19:15
Context19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night 55 in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. 56
Judges 21:23
Context21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. 57 They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. 58 They went home 59 to their own territory, 60 rebuilt their cities, and settled down. 61
1 tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “him.” The pronoun could refer to Othniel, in which case one would translate, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 15. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18 // Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. The translation takes Caleb to be the referent, specified as “her father.”
3 tn Heb “their altars.”
4 tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”
5 tn Heb “What is this you have done?”
6 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the next generation) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to return; to turn”) is sometimes translated “turn back” here, but it is probably used in an adverbial sense, indicating that the main action (“act wickedly”) is being repeated.
8 tn Heb “their fathers.”
sn The statement the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one must refer to the successive sinful generations after Joshua, not Joshua’s godly generation (cf. vv. 7, 17).
9 tn Or “serving [them]”; or “following [them].”
10 tn Or “drop.”
11 tn Heb “Arise!”
12 tn The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the
13 tn Heb “Has the
14 tn Heb “From Ephraim their root in Amalek” (the words “they came” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons). Because of the difficulty of the MT, many prefer to follow one of the ancient versions or emend the text. For various proposals see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 252-53. The present translation repoints שָׁרְשָׁם (shorsham, traditionally translated “their root”) as a Piel verb form with enclitic mem (ם). The preposition ב (bet) on עֲמָלֵק (’amaleq) introduces the object (see Job 31:12 for an example of the construction). Ephraim’s territory encompassed the hill country of the Amalekites (Judg 12:15).
15 tn The words “They follow” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
16 tn The word “came” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.
17 tn Or possibly “who carry.”
18 tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”
19 tn Heb “the people.”
20 tn Heb “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, put him by himself, as well as the one who gets down on his knees to drink.”
21 tn Heb “The people.”
22 tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
23 tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”
24 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25 tn Heb “tents.”
26 tn Heb “Midian.”
27 tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).
28 tn Heb “your hands will be strengthened.”
29 tn Heb “to the edge of the ones in battle array who were in the camp.”
30 tn Heb “from the men of Succoth.”
31 tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”
32 tn Heb “the people” (also in vv. 38, 43, 48). These were warriors, so “men” has been used in the translation, since in ancient Israelite culture soldiers would have been exclusively males.
33 tn Heb “the shadow on the hills you are seeing, like men.”
34 tn Heb “his people.”
35 tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”
36 tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”
37 tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”
38 tn Heb “stood [at].”
39 tn Heb “the men of Ephraim were summoned [or “were mustered”].”
40 tn Heb “cross over to fight.”
41 tn Or “calling”; or “summoning.”
42 tn Heb “Your house we will burn over you with fire.”
43 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
44 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
45 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”
46 tn Or “swear to me.”
47 tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.
48 tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”
49 tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”
50 tn Traditionally, “judged.”
51 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
52 tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.
53 tn Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”
54 tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”
55 tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”
56 tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”
57 tn Heb “did so.”
58 tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”
59 tn Heb “went and returned.”
60 tn Heb “inheritance.”
61 tn Heb “and lived in them.”
