Discovery BoxJudges 1:16 
Context1:16 Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the City of Date Palm Trees to Arad in the desert of Judah, 1 located in the Negev. 2 They went and lived with the people of Judah. 3
Judges 4:22
Context4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent, 4 and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead 5 with the tent peg in his temple.
Judges 6:13
Context6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, 6 but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster 7 overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 8 ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
Judges 7:24-25
Context7:24 Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, “Go down and head off the Midianites. 9 Take control of the fords of the streams 10 all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.” 11 When all the Ephraimites had assembled, 12 they took control of the fords 13 all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River. 7:25 They captured the two Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb. 14 They executed Oreb on the rock of Oreb and Zeeb 15 in the winepress of Zeeb. They chased the Midianites 16 and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now on the other side of the Jordan River. 17
Judges 11:13
Context11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole 18 my land when they 19 came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. 20 Now return it 21 peaceably!”
Judges 13:7
Context13:7 He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. 22 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 23 For the child will be dedicated 24 to God from birth till the day he dies.’”
Judges 13:23
Context13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. 25 He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
Judges 16:13
Context16:13 Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair 26 into the fabric on the loom 27 and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man.”
Judges 17:2
Context17:2 He said to his mother, “You know 28 the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen 29 from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole 30 it, but now I am giving it back to you.” 31 His mother said, “May the Lord reward 32 you, my son!”
Judges 18:14
Context18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish 33 said to their kinsmen, 34 “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”
Judges 19:18
Context19:18 The Levite 35 said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem 36 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. 37 But no one has invited me into their home.
1 tc Part of the Greek
2 tn Heb “[to] the Desert of Judah in the Negev, Arad.”
3 tn The phrase “of Judah” is supplied here in the translation. Some ancient textual witnesses read, “They went and lived with the Amalekites.” This reading, however, is probably influenced by 1 Sam 15:6 (see also Num 24:20-21).
4 tn Heb “he went to her.”
5 tn Heb “fallen, dead.”
6 tn Heb “But my lord.”
7 tn Heb “all this.”
8 tn Heb “saying.”
9 tn Heb “to meet Midian.”
10 tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”
11 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification (also later in this verse).
12 tn Heb “And all the men of Ephraim were summoned.”
13 tn Heb “they captured the waters.”
14 sn The names Oreb and Zeeb, which mean “Raven” and “Wolf” respectively, are appropriate because the Midianites had been like scavengers and predators to Israel.
15 tn The Hebrew text repeats the verb “executed.” This has not been repeated in the translation for stylistic reasons.
16 tn Heb “Midian.”
17 tn Heb “beyond the Jordan.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied in the translation for clarity (also in 8:4).
18 tn Or “took”; or “seized.”
19 tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).
20 tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.
21 tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.
22 tn See the note on the word “son” in 13:5, where this same statement occurs.
23 tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”
24 tn Traditionally “a Nazirite.”
25 tn Heb “our hand.”
26 tn Heb “head” (also in the following verse). By metonymy the head is mentioned in the Hebrew text in place of the hair on it.
27 tn Heb “with the web.” For a discussion of how Delilah did this, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 381, and G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 353-54.
28 tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
29 tn Heb “taken.”
30 tn Heb “took.”
31 tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.
32 tn Traditionally, “bless.”
33 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”
34 tn Heb “brothers.”
35 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
36 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
37 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.”
