Discovery BoxJudges 1:3 
Context1:3 The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon, 1 “Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites. 2 Then we 3 will go with you into your allotted land.” So the men of Simeon went with them.
Judges 2:1
Context2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger 4 went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. 5 I said, ‘I will never break my agreement 6 with you,
Judges 6:26
Context6:26 Then build an altar for the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. 7 Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”
Judges 9:18
Context9:18 But you have attacked 8 my father’s family 9 today. You murdered his seventy legitimate 10 sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative. 11
Judges 11:17
Context11:17 Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please allow us 12 to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. 13 Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. 14 So Israel stayed at Kadesh.
Judges 13:16
Context13:16 The Lord’s messenger said to Manoah, “If I stay, 15 I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, you should offer it.” (He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the Lord’s messenger.) 16
Judges 14:3
Context14:3 But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our 17 people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” 18 But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, 19 because she is the right one for me.” 20
Judges 19:9
Context19:9 When the man got ready to leave 21 with his concubine and his servant, 22 his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look! The day is almost over! 23 Stay another night! Since the day is over, 24 stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.” 25
Judges 21:21-22
Context21:21 and keep your eyes open. 26 When you see 27 the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, 28 jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin. 21:22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, 29 we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, 30 for we could not get each one a wife through battle. 31 Don’t worry about breaking your oath! 32 You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’” 33
1 tn Heb “Judah said to Simeon, his brother.”
2 tn Heb “Come up with me into our allotted land and let us attack the Canaanites.”
3 tn Heb “I.” The Hebrew pronoun is singular, agreeing with the collective singular “Judah” earlier in the verse. English style requires a plural pronoun here, however.
4 sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.
5 tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”
6 tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).
7 tn Possibly “in a row” or “in a layer,” perhaps referring to the arrangement of the stones used in the altar’s construction.
8 tn Heb “have risen up against.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.
11 tn Heb “your brother.”
12 tn Heb “me.” (Collective Israel is the speaker.)
13 tn Heb “did not listen.”
14 tn Heb “Also to the king of Moab he sent, but he was unwilling.”
15 tn Heb “If you detain me.”
16 tn The words “he said this” are supplied in the translation for clarification. Manoah should have known from these words that the messenger represented the
17 tn Heb “my.” The singular may seem strange, since the introduction to the quotation attributes the words to his father and mother. But Samson’s father apparently speaks for both himself and his wife. However, the Lucianic recension of the LXX and the Syriac Peshitta have a second person pronoun here (“you”), and this may represent the original reading.
18 tn Heb “Is there not among the daughters of your brothers or among all my people a woman that you have to go to get a wife among the uncircumcised Philistines?”
19 tn “Her” is first in the Hebrew word order for emphasis. Samson wanted this Philistine girl, no one else. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 357.
20 tn Heb “because she is right in my eyes.”
21 tn Heb “the man arose to go.”
22 tn Or “young man.”
23 tn Heb “the day is sinking to become evening.”
24 tn Or “declining.”
25 tn Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”
26 tn Heb “and look.”
27 tn Heb “and look, when.”
28 tn Heb “in the dances.”
29 tc The (original) LXX and Vulgate read “to you.”
30 tn The words “and let them be” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
31 tn Heb “for we did not take each his wife in battle.”
sn Through battle. This probably refers to the battle against Jabesh Gilead, which only produced four hundred of the six hundred wives needed.
32 tn This sentence is not in the Hebrew text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the logic of the statement.
33 tc Heb “You did not give to them, now you are guilty.” The MT as it stands makes little sense. It is preferable to emend לֹא (lo’, “not”) to לוּא (lu’, “if”). This particle introduces a purely hypothetical condition, “If you had given to them [but you didn’t].” See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 453-54.
