Discovery BoxJudges 1:9 
Context1:9 Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands. 1
Judges 2:6
Context2:6 When Joshua dismissed 2 the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, 3 intending to take possession of the land.
Judges 2:15
Context2:15 Whenever they went out to fight, 4 the Lord did them harm, 5 just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. 6 They suffered greatly. 7
Judges 3:22
Context3:22 The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud 8 did not pull the sword out of his belly. 9
Judges 3:27
Context3:27 When he reached Seirah, 10 he blew a trumpet 11 in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead. 12
Judges 4:10
Context4:10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; 13 Deborah went up with him as well.
Judges 5:9
Context5:9 My heart went out 14 to Israel’s leaders,
to the people who answered the call to war.
Praise the Lord!
Judges 7:3
Context7:3 Now, announce to the men, 15 ‘Whoever is shaking with fear 16 may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.’” 17 Twenty-two thousand men 18 went home; 19 ten thousand remained.
Judges 8:8
Context8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. 20 The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had. 21
Judges 9:6
Context9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar 22 in Shechem.
Judges 9:46
Context9:46 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem 23 heard the news, they went to the stronghold 24 of the temple of El-Berith. 25
Judges 11:11
Context11:11 So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander. Jephthah repeated the terms of the agreement 26 before the Lord in Mizpah.
Judges 11:29
Context11:29 The Lord’s spirit empowered 27 Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went 28 to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites. 29
Judges 11:38
Context11:38 He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave 30 for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills. 31
Judges 15:4
Context15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals 32 and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. 33
Judges 15:8
Context15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. 34 Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.
Judges 18:12
Context18:12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. 35 It is west 36 of Kiriath Jearim.)
Judges 18:15
Context18:15 They stopped 37 there, went inside the young Levite’s house (which belonged to Micah), 38 and asked him how he was doing. 39
Judges 19:2
Context19:2 However, she 40 got angry at him 41 and went home 42 to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,
Judges 19:28
Context19:28 He said to her, “Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home. 43
Judges 20:18
Context20:18 The Israelites went up to Bethel 44 and asked God, 45 “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” 46 The Lord said, “Judah should lead.”
Judges 21:24
Context21:24 Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property. 47
1 tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”
2 tn Or “sent away.”
3 tn Heb “the Israelites went each to his inheritance.”
4 tn The expression “to fight” is interpretive.
5 tn Heb “the
6 tn Heb “just as he had said and just as he had sworn to them.”
7 tn Or “they experienced great distress.”
8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ehud) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 tn The Hebrew text has “and he went out to the [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew word פַּרְשְׁדֹנָה (parshÿdonah) which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. The noun has the article prefixed and directive suffix. The word may be a technical architectural term, indicating the area into which Ehud moved as he left the king and began his escape. In this case Ehud is the subject of the verb “went out.” The present translation omits the clause, understanding it as an ancient variant of the first clause in v. 23. Some take the noun as “back,” understand “sword” (from the preceding clause) as the subject, and translate “the sword came out his [i.e., Eglon’s] back.” But this rendering is unlikely since the Hebrew word for “sword” (חֶרֶב, kherev) is feminine and the verb form translated “came out” (וַיֵּצֵא, vayyetse’) is masculine. (One expects agreement in gender when the subject is supplied from the preceding clause. See Ezek 33:4, 6.) See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 146-48, for discussion of the options.
10 tn Heb “When he arrived.”
11 tn That is, “mustered an army.”
12 tn Heb “now he was before them.”
13 tn Heb “went up at his feet.”
14 tn The words “went out” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
15 tn Heb “call into the ears of the people.”
16 tn Heb “afraid and shaking.”
17 tc Many interpreters reject the MT reading “and leave Mount Gilead” for geographical reasons. A possible alternative, involving rather radical emendation of the Hebrew text, would be, “So Gideon tested them” (i.e., thinned the ranks in this manner).
18 tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because warriors are in view, and in ancient Israelite culture these would be only males. (This is also the case in vv. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.)
19 tn Or “turned around, back.”
20 tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”
21 tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”
22 tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).
23 sn Perhaps the Tower of Shechem was a nearby town, distinct from Shechem proper, or a tower within the city.
24 tn Apparently this rare word refers here to the most inaccessible area of the temple, perhaps the inner sanctuary or an underground chamber. It appears only here and in 1 Sam 13:6, where it is paired with “cisterns” and refers to subterranean or cave-like hiding places.
25 sn The name El-Berith means “God of the Covenant.” It is probably a reference to the Canaanite high god El.
26 tn Heb “spoke all his words.” This probably refers to the “words” recorded in v. 9. Jephthah repeats the terms of the agreement at the
27 tn Heb “was on.”
28 tn Heb “passed through.”
29 tn Heb “From Mizpah in Gilead he passed through [to] the Ammonites.”
30 tn Heb “he sent her.”
31 tn Heb “on the hills.” The words “as she walked” are supplied.
32 tn Traditionally, “foxes.”
33 tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”
34 tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.
35 tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”
36 tn Heb “behind.”
37 tn Heb “turned aside.”
38 tn Heb “Micah’s house.”
39 tn Heb “they asked him concerning peace.”
40 tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
41 tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).
42 tn Heb “went from him.”
43 tn Heb “And the man took her on the donkey and arose and went to his place.”
44 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
45 tn Heb “They arose and went up to Bethel and asked God, and the Israelites said.”
46 tn Heb “Who should go up for us first for battle against the sons of Benjamin?”
47 tn Heb “his inheritance.”
