Discovery BoxJudges 19:4-6 
Context19:4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there. 19:5 On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. 1 But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy, 2 then you can go.” 19:6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. 3 Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!” 4
Judges 19:8
Context19:8 He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy. 5 Wait until later in the day to leave!” 6 So they ate a meal together.
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. 7 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
Judges 21:23
Context21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. 8 They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. 9 They went home 10 to their own territory, 11 rebuilt their cities, and settled down. 12
1 tn Heb “and he arose to go.”
2 tn Heb “Sustain your heart [with] a bit of food.”
3 tn Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”
4 tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”
5 tn Heb “Sustain your heart.” He is once more inviting him to stay for a meal.
6 tn Heb “Wait until the declining of the day.”
7 tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”
8 tn Heb “did so.”
9 tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”
10 tn Heb “went and returned.”
11 tn Heb “inheritance.”
12 tn Heb “and lived in them.”
