Discovery BoxJudges 18:9-10 
Context18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, 1 for 2 we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, 3 but don’t hesitate 4 to invade and conquer 5 the land. 18:10 When you invade, 6 you will encounter 7 unsuspecting people. The land is wide! 8 God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” 9
1 tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”
2 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”
3 tn Heb “But you are inactive.”
4 tn Or “be lazy.”
5 tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”
6 tn Heb “When you enter.”
7 tn Heb “you will come to.”
8 tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”
9 tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
