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 3:28
Context3:28 He said to them, “Follow me, for the Lord is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!” 4 They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River 5 opposite Moab, 6 and did not let anyone cross.
Judges 6:25
Context6:25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. 7 Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.
Judges 7:4
Context7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. 8 Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. 9 When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; 10 when I say, 11 ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” 12
Judges 7:22
Context7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords 13 throughout 14 the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went 15 to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
Judges 11:35
Context11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! 16 You have brought me disaster! 17 I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” 18
Judges 12:3
Context12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, 19 I risked my life 20 and advanced against 21 the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up 22 to fight with me today?”
Judges 13:23
Context13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. 23 He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
Judges 14:6
Context14:6 The Lord’s spirit empowered 24 him and he tore the lion 25 in two with his bare hands 26 as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 27 and gave them 28 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 29
Judges 15:14
Context15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered 30 him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in 31 fire, and they 32 melted away from his hands.
Judges 17:2
Context17:2 He said to his mother, “You know 33 the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen 34 from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole 35 it, but now I am giving it back to you.” 36 His mother said, “May the Lord reward 37 you, my son!”
Judges 20:28
Context20:28 Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the Lord 38 in those days), “Should we 39 once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, 40 or should we 41 quit?” The Lord said, “Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them 42 over to you.”
Judges 20:31
Context20:31 The Benjaminites attacked 43 the army, leaving the city unguarded. 44 They began to strike down their enemy 45 just as they had done before. On the main roads (one leads to Bethel, 46 the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down 47 about thirty Israelites.
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 Heb “for the Lord has given your enemies, Moab, into your hand.” The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the
5 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarity.
6 tn Or “against Moab,” that is, so as to prevent the Moabites from crossing.
7 tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar.
8 tn Heb “too many people.”
9 tn Heb “test them for you there.”
10 tn Heb “he should go with you.”
11 tn Heb also has “to you.”
12 tn Heb “he should not go.”
13 tn Heb “the
14 tc MT has “and throughout the camp,” but the conjunction (“and”) is due to dittography and should be dropped. Compare the ancient versions, which lack the conjunction here.
15 tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
16 tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.
17 tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”
18 tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the
19 tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”
20 tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”
21 tn Heb “crossed over to.”
22 tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
23 tn Heb “our hand.”
24 tn Heb “rushed on.”
25 tn Heb “him” or “it”; the referent (the lion) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
26 tn Heb “and there was nothing in his hand.”
27 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”
28 tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”
29 tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”
30 tn Heb “rushed on.”
31 tn Heb “burned with.”
32 tn Heb “his bonds.”
33 tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
34 tn Heb “taken.”
35 tn Heb “took.”
36 tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.
37 tn Traditionally, “bless.”
38 tn Heb “standing before him.”
39 tn Heb “I” (collective singular).
40 tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).
41 tn Heb “I” (collective singular).
42 tn Heb “him” (collective singular).
43 tn Heb “went out to meet.”
44 tn Heb “and they were drawn away from the city.”
45 tn Heb “from the army wounded ones.”
46 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
47 tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
