Judges 10:14
Context10:14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” 1
Judges 11:12
ContextJephthah Gives a History Lesson
11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, “Why have 2 you come against me to attack my land?”
Judges 16:1
ContextSamson’s Downfall
16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. 3
Judges 17:13
Context17:13 Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, 4 because I have this Levite as my priest.”
Judges 18:23
Context18:23 When they called out to the Danites, the Danites 5 turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”
1 tn Heb “in your time of trouble.”
2 tn Heb “What to me and to you that…?”
3 tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.
4 tn Heb “do good for me.”
5 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.