Discovery BoxJudges 1:33 
Context1:33 The men of Naphtali did not conquer the people living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath. 1 They live among the Canaanites residing in the land. The Canaanites 2 living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were forced to do hard labor for them.
Judges 4:6
Context4:6 She summoned 3 Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!
Judges 6:27
Context6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants 4 and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family 5 and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. 6
Judges 7:4
Context7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. 7 Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. 8 When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; 9 when I say, 10 ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” 11
Judges 7:22
Context7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords 12 throughout 13 the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went 14 to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
Judges 9:51
Context9:51 There was a fortified 15 tower 16 in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.
Judges 14:16
Context14:16 So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder 17 and said, “You must 18 hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men 19 a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” 20
Judges 14:18
Context14:18 On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
He said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer, 21
you would not have solved my riddle!”
Judges 15:11
Context15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”
Judges 16:17
Context16:17 Finally he told her his secret. 22 He said to her, “My hair has never been cut, 23 for I have been dedicated to God 24 from the time I was conceived. 25 If my head 26 were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”
Judges 18:2
Context18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, 27 capable men 28 from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house. 29
Judges 18:7
Context18:7 So the five men journeyed on 30 and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there 31 were living securely, like the Sidonians do, 32 undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. 33 They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. 34
Judges 18:14
Context18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish 35 said to their kinsmen, 36 “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 19:22
Context19:22 They were having a good time, 37 when suddenly 38 some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, 39 surrounded the house and kept beating 40 on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” 41
Judges 20:10
Context20:10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. 42 When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.” 43
1 tn Heb “the people living in Beth Shemesh or the people living in Beth Anath.”
2 tn The term “Canaanites” is supplied here both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Heb “sent and summoned.”
4 tn Heb “men from among his servants.”
5 tn Heb “house.”
6 tn Heb “so he did it at night.”
7 tn Heb “too many people.”
8 tn Heb “test them for you there.”
9 tn Heb “he should go with you.”
10 tn Heb also has “to you.”
11 tn Heb “he should not go.”
12 tn Heb “the
13 tc MT has “and throughout the camp,” but the conjunction (“and”) is due to dittography and should be dropped. Compare the ancient versions, which lack the conjunction here.
14 tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
15 tn Or “strong.”
16 tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.
17 tn Heb “on him.”
18 tn Heb “only”; or “simply.”
19 tn Heb “the sons of my people.”
20 tn Heb “Should I tell you?”
21 sn Plowed with my heifer. This statement emphasizes that the Philistines had utilized a source of information which should have been off-limits to them. Heifers were used in plowing (Hos 10:11), but one typically used one’s own farm animals, not another man’s.
22 tn Heb “all his heart.”
23 tn Heb “a razor has not come upon my head.”
24 tn Or “set apart to God.” Traditionally the Hebrew term נָזִיר (nazir) has been translated “Nazirite.” The word is derived from the verb נָזַר (nazar, “to dedicate; to consecrate; to set apart”).
25 tn Heb “from the womb of my mother.”
26 tn Heb “I.” The referent has been made more specific in the translation (“my head”).
27 tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”
28 tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”
29 tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”
30 tn Or “went.”
31 tn Heb “who were in its midst.”
32 tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”
33 tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”
34 tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.
35 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”
36 tn Heb “brothers.”
37 tn Heb “they were making their heart good.”
38 tn Heb “and look.”
39 tn Heb “the men of the city, men, the sons of wickedness.” The phrases are in apposition; the last phrase specifies what type of men they were. It is not certain if all the men of the city are in view, or just a group of troublemakers. In 20:5 the town leaders are implicated in the crime, suggesting that all the men of the city were involved. If so, the implication is that the entire male population of the town were good-for-nothings.
40 tn The Hitpael verb form appears to have an iterative force here, indicating repeated action.
41 tn Heb “so we can know him.” On the surface one might think they simply wanted to meet the visitor and get to know him, but their hostile actions betray their double-talk. The old man, who has been living with them long enough to know what they are like, seems to have no doubts about the meaning of their words (see v. 23).
42 tn Or “people.”
43 tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”
