Discovery BoxJudges 1:22 
Context1:22 When the men 1 of Joseph attacked 2 Bethel, 3 the Lord was with them.
Judges 2:16
Context2:16 The Lord raised up leaders 4 who delivered them from these robbers. 5
Judges 10:7
Context10:7 The Lord was furious with Israel 6 and turned them over to 7 the Philistines and Ammonites.
Judges 15:3
Context15:3 Samson said to them, 8 “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” 9
1 tn Heb “house.” This is a metonymy for the warriors from the tribe.
2 tn Heb “went up.”
3 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
4 tn Or more traditionally, “judges” (also in vv. 17, 18 [3x], 19). Since these figures carried out more than a judicial function, also serving as rulers and (in several instances) as military commanders, the translation uses the term “leaders.”
5 tn Heb “and they delivered them from the hand of the ones robbing them.”
6 tn Or “the
7 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
8 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”
9 tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”
