Discovery BoxJudges 1:17 
Context1:17 The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon 1 and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. 2 So people now call the city Hormah. 3
Judges 11:33
Context11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! 4 The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. 5
Judges 20:48
Context20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 6 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 7 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 8
1 tn Heb “Judah went with Simeon, his brother.”
2 tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Zephath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 sn The name Hormah (חָרְמָה, khormah) sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “wipe out” (חָרַם, kharam).
4 tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”
5 tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”
6 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
7 tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
8 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
