Discovery BoxJudges 1:36 
Context1:36 The border of Amorite territory ran from the Scorpion Ascent 1 to Sela and on up. 2
Judges 2:16
Context2:16 The Lord raised up leaders 3 who delivered them from these robbers. 4
Judges 4:12
Context4:12 When Sisera heard 5 that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
Judges 10:3
Context10:3 Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.
Judges 15:9
Context15:9 The Philistines went up and invaded 6 Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle 7 in Lehi.
Judges 20:19
Context20:19 The Israelites got up the next morning and moved 8 against Gibeah.
1 tn Or “the Ascent of Scorpions” (עַקְרַבִּים [’aqrabbim] means “scorpions” in Hebrew).
2 tn Or “Amorite territory started at the Pass of the Scorpions at Sela and then went on up.”
3 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.”
4 tn Heb “and they delivered them from the hand of the ones robbing them.”
5 tn Heb “and they told Sisera.”
6 tn Or “camped in.”
7 tn Or “spread out.” The Niphal of נָטָשׁ (natash) has this same sense in 2 Sam 5:18, 22.
8 tn Heb “encamped.”
