Discovery BoxJudges 1:7 
Context1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up 1 food scraps 2 under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” 3 They brought him to Jerusalem, 4 where he died.
Judges 3:1
Context3:1 These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites. 5
Judges 3:8-9
Context3:8 The Lord was furious with Israel 6 and turned them over to 7 King Cushan-Rishathaim 8 of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects 9 for eight years. 3:9 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he 10 raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued 11 them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. 12
Judges 3:28
Context3:28 He said to them, “Follow me, for the Lord is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!” 13 They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River 14 opposite Moab, 15 and did not let anyone cross.
Judges 6:8-9
Context6:8 he 16 sent a prophet 17 to the Israelites. He said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I brought you up from Egypt 18 and took you out of that place of slavery. 19 6:9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power 20 and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.
Judges 6:35
Context6:35 He sent messengers throughout Manasseh and summoned them to follow him as well. 21 He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him.
Judges 7:1
Context7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men 22 got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. 23 The Midianites 24 were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.
Judges 8:19
Context8:19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, 25 as surely as the Lord is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
Judges 9:1
Context9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. 26 He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, 27
Judges 9:9
Context9:9 But the olive tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’ 28
Judges 9:13
Context9:13 But the grapevine said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my wine, which makes gods and men so happy, just to sway above the other trees!’ 29
Judges 9:38
Context9:38 Zebul said to him, “Where now are your bragging words, 30 ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men 31 you insulted? 32 Go out now and fight them!”
Judges 9:44
Context9:44 Abimelech and his units 33 attacked and blocked 34 the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.
Judges 11:9
Context11:9 Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “All right! 35 If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me, 36 I will be your leader.” 37
Judges 11:21
Context11:21 The Lord God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took 38 all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.
Judges 11:26
Context11:26 Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?
Judges 12:2-4
Context12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. 39 I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. 40 12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, 41 I risked my life 42 and advanced against 43 the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up 44 to fight with me today?” 12:4 Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying, 45 “You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim, living within Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s territory.” 46
Judges 13:19
Context13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. 47
Judges 14:12
Context14:12 Samson said to them, “I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, 48 I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets 49 of clothes.
Judges 14:14
Context14:14 He said to them,
“Out of the one who eats came something to eat;
out of the strong one came something sweet.”
They could not solve the riddle for three days.
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 50 and gave them 51 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 52
Judges 15:12-13
Context15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me 53 you will not kill 54 me.” 15:13 They said to him, “We promise! 55 We will only take you prisoner and hand you over to them. We promise not to kill you.” They tied him up with two brand new ropes and led him up from the cliff.
Judges 16:25
Context16:25 When they really started celebrating, 56 they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. 57 They made him stand between two pillars.
Judges 16:29
Context16:29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple 58 and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.
Judges 18:9
Context18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, 59 for 60 we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, 61 but don’t hesitate 62 to invade and conquer 63 the land.
Judges 18:18
Context18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole 64 the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Judges 18:27
Context18:27 Now the Danites 65 took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city. 66
Judges 19:6
Context19:6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. 67 Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!” 68
Judges 19:15
Context19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night 69 in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. 70
Judges 19:23
Context19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!
Judges 20:13
Context20:13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings 71 in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” 72 But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
Judges 20:23
Context20:23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we 73 again march out to fight 74 the Benjaminites, our brothers?” 75 The Lord said, “Attack them!” 76
Judges 20:32
Context20:32 Then the Benjaminites said, “They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said, “Let’s retreat 77 and lure them 78 away from the city into the main roads.”
Judges 20:48
Context20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 79 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 80 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 81
Judges 21:7
Context21:7 How can we find wives for those who are left? 82 After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
Judges 21:10
Context21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors 83 against Jabesh Gilead. 84 They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords 85 the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.
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. 86 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
1 tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.
2 tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.
3 tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn Heb “did not know the wars of Canaan.”
6 tn Or “The
7 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
8 tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”
9 tn Or “they served Cushan-Rishathaim.”
10 tn Heb “the
11 tn Or “delivered.”
12 tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel is Caleb’s nephew).
13 tn Heb “for the Lord has given your enemies, Moab, into your hand.” The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the
14 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarity.
15 tn Or “against Moab,” that is, so as to prevent the Moabites from crossing.
16 tn Heb “the
17 tn Heb “a man, a prophet.” Hebrew idiom sometimes puts a generic term before a more specific designation.
18 tc Some ancient witnesses read “from the land of Egypt.” מֵאֶרֶץ (me’erets, “from the land [of]”) could have been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton (note the following מִמִּצְרַיִם [mimmitsrayim, “from Egypt”]).
19 tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”
20 tn Heb “hand” (also a second time later in this verse).
21 tn Heb “and he also was summoned after him.”
22 tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”
23 sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”
24 tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).
25 tn The words “I swear” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
26 tn Heb “brothers.”
27 tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”
28 tn Heb “Should I stop my abundance, with which they honor gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?” The negative sentence in the translation reflects the force of the rhetorical question.
29 tn Heb “Should I stop my wine, which makes happy gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?” The negative sentence in the translation reflects the force of the rhetorical question.
30 tn Heb “is your mouth that says.”
31 tn Heb “the people.”
32 tn Or “despised.”
33 tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”
34 tn Heb “stood [at].”
35 tn “All right” is supplied in the translation for clarification.
36 tn Heb “places them before me.”
37 tn Some translate the final statement as a question, “will I really be your leader?” An affirmative sentence is preferable. Jephthah is repeating the terms of the agreement in an official manner. In v. 10 the leaders legally agree to these terms.
38 tn That is, took as its own possession.
39 tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”
40 tn Heb “hand.”
41 tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”
42 tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”
43 tn Heb “crossed over to.”
44 tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
45 tn Heb “because they said.”
46 tc Heb “Refugees of Ephraim are you, O Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.” The LXX omits the entire second half of the verse (beginning with “because”). The words כִּי אָמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם (ki ’amru pÿlitey ’efrayim, “because they said, ‘Refugees of Ephraim’”) may have been accidentally copied from the next verse (cf. כִּי יֹאמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם, ki yo’mÿru pelitey ’efrayim) and the following words (“you, O Gilead…Manasseh”) then added in an attempt to make sense of the verse. See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 307-8, and C. F. Burney, Judges, 327. If the Hebrew text is retained, then the Ephraimites appear to be insulting the Gileadites by describing them as refugees who are squatting on Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s land. The present translation assumes that “Ephraim” is a genitive of location after “refugees.”
47 tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the
48 tn Heb “If you really can tell it to me [during] the seven days of the feast and you find [its answer].”
49 tn Heb “changes.”
50 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
51 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
52 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”
53 tn Or “swear to me.”
54 tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.
55 tn Heb “No,” meaning that they will not harm him.
56 tn Heb “When their heart was good.”
57 tn Heb “before them.”
58 tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house was founded.”
59 tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”
60 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”
61 tn Heb “But you are inactive.”
62 tn Or “be lazy.”
63 tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”
64 tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”
65 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
66 tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.
67 tn Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”
68 tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”
69 tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”
70 tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”
71 tn Heb “the men, sons of wickedness.”
72 tn Heb “and burn away wickedness from Israel.”
73 tn Heb “I” (collective singular).
74 tn Heb “approach for battle.”
75 tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).
76 tn Heb “Go up against him” (collective singular).
77 tn Or “run away.”
78 tn Heb “him” (collective singular).
79 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
80 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).
81 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
82 tn Heb “What should we do for them, for the remaining ones, concerning wives?”
83 tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”
84 tn Heb “there.”
85 tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”
86 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”
