Discovery BoxJudges 2:15 
Context2:15 Whenever they went out to fight, 1 the Lord did them harm, 2 just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. 3 They suffered greatly. 4
Judges 3:22
Context3:22 The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud 5 did not pull the sword out of his belly. 6
Judges 4:15
Context4:15 The Lord routed 7 Sisera, all his chariotry, and all his army with the edge of the sword. 8 Sisera jumped out of 9 his chariot and ran away on foot.
Judges 5:9
Context5:9 My heart went out 10 to Israel’s leaders,
to the people who answered the call to war.
Praise the Lord!
Judges 6:20
Context6:20 God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, 11 and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed. 12
Judges 8:25
Context8:25 They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.” 13 So they 14 spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.
Judges 9:4
Context9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous 15 men as his followers. 16
Judges 9:8
Context9:8 “The trees were determined to go out 17 and choose a king for themselves. 18 They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ 19
Judges 9:25
Context9:25 The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting 20 bandits in 21 the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it. 22
Judges 9:33
Context9:33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.” 23
Judges 9:35
Context9:35 When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.
Judges 10:10
Context10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped 24 the Baals.”
Judges 10:12
Context10:12 the Sidonians, Amalek, and Midian 25 when they oppressed you? 26 You cried out for help to me, and I delivered you from their power. 27
Judges 11:23
Context11:23 Since 28 the Lord God of Israel has driven out 29 the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them? 30
Judges 16:21
Context16:21 The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.
Judges 19:26
Context19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master 31 was staying until it became light. 32
Judges 21:16
Context21:16 The leaders 33 of the assembly said, “How can we find wives for those who are left? 34 After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.
1 tn The expression “to fight” is interpretive.
2 tn Heb “the
3 tn Heb “just as he had said and just as he had sworn to them.”
4 tn Or “they experienced great distress.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ehud) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The Hebrew text has “and he went out to the [?].” The meaning of the Hebrew word פַּרְשְׁדֹנָה (parshÿdonah) which occurs only here in the OT, is uncertain. The noun has the article prefixed and directive suffix. The word may be a technical architectural term, indicating the area into which Ehud moved as he left the king and began his escape. In this case Ehud is the subject of the verb “went out.” The present translation omits the clause, understanding it as an ancient variant of the first clause in v. 23. Some take the noun as “back,” understand “sword” (from the preceding clause) as the subject, and translate “the sword came out his [i.e., Eglon’s] back.” But this rendering is unlikely since the Hebrew word for “sword” (חֶרֶב, kherev) is feminine and the verb form translated “came out” (וַיֵּצֵא, vayyetse’) is masculine. (One expects agreement in gender when the subject is supplied from the preceding clause. See Ezek 33:4, 6.) See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 146-48, for discussion of the options.
7 tn Or “caused to panic.”
8 tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “before Barak.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn Heb “got down from.”
10 tn The words “went out” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
11 tn Heb “Take the meat…and put [it] on this rock.”
12 tn Heb “and he did so.”
13 tn Heb “We will indeed give.”
14 tc In the LXX the subject of this verb is singular, referring to Gideon rather than to the Israelites.
15 tn Heb “empty and reckless.”
16 tn Heb “and they followed him.”
17 tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”
18 tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”
19 tn Or “Rule over us!”
20 tn Heb “set against him bandits.”
sn Putting bandits in the hills. This piracy certainly interrupted or discouraged trade, and probably deprived Abimelech of tariffs or tribute. See C. F. Burney, Judges, 277; G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 253.
21 tn Heb “on the tops of.”
22 tn Heb “It was told to Abimelech.”
23 tn Heb “Look! He and the people who are with him will come out to you, and you will do to him what your hand finds [to do].”
24 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”
25 tc The translation follows the LXX which reads “Midian”; the Hebrew text has “Maon.”
26 tn The words “Did I not deliver you” are interpretive. The Hebrew text simply reads, “Is it not from Egypt…when they oppressed you?” Perhaps the incomplete sentence reflects the
27 tn Heb “hand.”
28 tn Heb “Now.”
29 tn Or “dispossessed.”
30 tn Heb “will you dispossess him [i.e., Israel; or possibly “it,” i.e., the territory]?” There is no interrogative marker in the Hebrew text.
31 tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.
32 tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”
33 tn Or “elders.”
34 tn Heb “What should we do for the remaining ones concerning wives?”
