Discovery BoxJudges 2:1 
Context2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger 1 went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. 2 I said, ‘I will never break my agreement 3 with you,
Judges 2:17
Context2:17 But they did not obey 4 their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped 5 them. They quickly turned aside from the path 6 their ancestors 7 had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord’s commands, but they did not. 8
Judges 6:11
Context6:11 The Lord’s angelic messenger 9 came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon 10 was threshing 11 wheat in a winepress 12 so he could hide it from the Midianites. 13
Judges 10:6
Context10:6 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. 14 They worshiped 15 the Baals and the Ashtars, 16 as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, 17 Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. 18 They abandoned the Lord and did not worship 19 him.
1 sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.
2 tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”
3 tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).
4 tn Or “did not listen to.”
5 tn Or “bowed before.”
6 tn Or “way [of life].”
7 tn Or “fathers.”
8 tn Heb “…walked, obeying the
9 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive.
sn The
10 tn Heb “Now Gideon his son…” The Hebrew circumstantial clause (note the pattern vav [ו] + subject + predicate) breaks the narrative sequence and indicates that the angel’s arrival coincided with Gideon’s threshing.
11 tn Heb “beating out.”
12 sn Threshing wheat in a winepress. One would normally thresh wheat at the threshing floor outside the city. Animals and a threshing sledge would be employed. Because of the Midianite threat, Gideon was forced to thresh with a stick in a winepress inside the city. For further discussion see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 63.
13 tn Heb “Midian.”
14 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
15 tn Or “served;” or “followed.”
16 sn The Ashtars were local manifestations of the goddess Ashtar (i.e., Astarte).
17 map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.
18 tn Heb “the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines.”
19 tn Or “serve”; or “follow.”
