Discovery BoxJudges 2:14 
Context2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel 1 and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. 2 He turned them over to 3 their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. 4
Judges 3:8
Context3:8 The Lord was furious with Israel 5 and turned them over to 6 King Cushan-Rishathaim 7 of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects 8 for eight years.
Judges 4:9
Context4:9 She said, “I will indeed go with you. But you will not gain fame 9 on the expedition you are undertaking, 10 for the Lord will turn Sisera over to a woman.” 11 Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Judges 4:15
Context4:15 The Lord routed 12 Sisera, all his chariotry, and all his army with the edge of the sword. 13 Sisera jumped out of 14 his chariot and ran away on foot.
Judges 5:31
Context5:31 May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!
But may those who love you shine
like the rising sun at its brightest!” 15
And the land had rest for forty years.
Judges 6:11
Context6:11 The Lord’s angelic messenger 16 came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon 17 was threshing 18 wheat in a winepress 19 so he could hide it from the Midianites. 20
Judges 6:27
Context6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants 21 and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family 22 and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. 23
Judges 7:2
Context7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. 24 Israel might brag, 25 ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ 26
Judges 7:5
Context7:5 So he brought the men 27 down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.” 28
Judges 7:7
Context7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army 29 and I will hand Midian over to you. 30 The rest of the men should go home.” 31
Judges 15:18
Context15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant 32 this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” 33
Judges 16:20
Context16:20 She said, “The Philistines are here, 34 Samson!” He woke up 35 and thought, 36 “I will do as I did before 37 and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the Lord had left him.
Judges 17:4
Context17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she 38 took two hundred pieces of silver 39 to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. 40
Judges 21:19
Context21:19 However, there is an annual festival to the Lord in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel 41 (east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.”
1 tn Or “The
2 tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)
sn The expression robbers who plundered them is a derogatory reference to the enemy nations, as the next line indicates.
3 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
4 tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
5 tn Or “The
6 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
7 tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”
8 tn Or “they served Cushan-Rishathaim.”
9 tn Or “honor.”
10 tn Heb “on [account of (?)] the way which you are walking.” Another option is to translate, “due to the way you are going about this.” In this case direct reference is made to Barak’s hesitancy as the reason for his loss of glory.
11 tn Heb “for into the hands of a woman the
12 tn Or “caused to panic.”
13 tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “before Barak.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
14 tn Heb “got down from.”
15 tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”
16 tn The adjective “angelic” is interpretive.
sn The
17 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.
18 tn Heb “beating out.”
19 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.
20 tn Heb “Midian.”
21 tn Heb “men from among his servants.”
22 tn Heb “house.”
23 tn Heb “so he did it at night.”
24 tn Heb “the people who are with you are too numerous for me to give Midian into their hand.”
25 tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”
26 tn Heb “my hand has delivered me.”
27 tn Heb “the people.”
28 tn Heb “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, put him by himself, as well as the one who gets down on his knees to drink.”
29 tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.
30 tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.
31 tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”
32 tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”
33 tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.
34 tn Heb “are upon you.”
35 tn The Hebrew adds, “from his sleep.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
36 tn Heb “and said.”
37 tn Heb “I will go out as before.”
38 tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.
39 tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
40 tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”
41 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
