Discovery BoxJudges 1:19 
Context1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered 1 the hill country, but they could not 2 conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels. 3
Judges 2:12
Context2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors 4 who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped 5 them and made the Lord angry.
Judges 6:4
Context6:4 They invaded the land 6 and devoured 7 its crops 8 all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, 9 and they took away 10 the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.
Judges 7:19
Context7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp 11 at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying. 12
Judges 18:3
Context18:3 As they approached 13 Micah’s house, they recognized the accent 14 of the young Levite. So they stopped 15 there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” 16
Judges 20:26
Context20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, 17 went up to 18 Bethel. 19 They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything 20 that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace 21 to the Lord.
Judges 20:39
Context20:39 the Israelites counterattacked. 22 Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; 23 they struck down 24 about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”
Judges 20:48
Context20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 25 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 26 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 27
Judges 21:12
Context21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. 28 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
1 tn Or “seized possession of”; or “occupied.”
2 tc Several textual witnesses support the inclusion of this verb.
3 tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.
4 tn Or “fathers.”
5 tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).
6 tn Heb “They encamped against them.”
7 tn Heb “destroyed.”
8 tn Heb “the crops of the land.”
9 tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”
10 tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
11 tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”
12 tn Heb “that were in their hands.”
13 tn Or “When they were near.”
14 tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).
15 tn Heb “turned aside.”
16 tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”
17 tn Heb “and all the people.”
18 tn Heb “went up and came [to].”
19 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
20 tn Traditionally, “fasted.”
21 tn Or “peace offerings.”
22 tn Heb “turned in the battle.”
23 tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”
24 tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
25 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
26 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).
27 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
28 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”
