Discovery BoxJudges 2:2 
Context2:2 but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ 1 But you have disobeyed me. 2 Why would you do such a thing? 3
Judges 5:16-17
Context5:16 Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, 4
listening to the shepherds playing their pipes 5 for their flocks? 6
As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.
5:17 Gilead stayed put 7 beyond the Jordan River.
As for Dan – why did he seek temporary employment in the shipyards? 8
Asher remained 9 on the seacoast,
he stayed 10 by his harbors. 11
Judges 8:1
Context8:1 The Ephraimites said to him, “Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us 12 when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.
Judges 9:2
Context9:2 “Tell 13 all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want 14 to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” 15
Judges 11:7
Context11:7 Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave 16 my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”
Judges 11:26
Context11:26 Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?
Judges 12:1
Context12:1 The Ephraimites assembled 17 and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight 18 with the Ammonites without asking 19 us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!” 20
Judges 12:3
Context12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, 21 I risked my life 22 and advanced against 23 the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up 24 to fight with me today?”
Judges 15:10
Context15:10 The men of Judah said, “Why are you attacking 25 us?” The Philistines 26 said, “We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us.”
Judges 19:6
Context19:6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. 27 Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!” 28
1 tn Heb “their altars.”
2 tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”
3 tn Heb “What is this you have done?”
4 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (mishpÿtayim) is uncertain. Some understand the word to mean “campfires.”
5 tn Or “whistling.”
6 tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”
7 tn Heb “lived” or “settled down.”
sn Apparently the people of Gilead remained on the other side of the river and did not participate in the battle.
8 tn Heb “Dan, why did he live as a resident alien, ships.” The verb גּוּר (gur) usually refers to taking up residence outside one’s native land. Perhaps the Danites, rather than rallying to Barak, were content to move to the Mediterranean coast and work in the shipyards. For further discussion, see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 262.
9 tn Heb “lived.”
10 tn Heb “lived” or “settled down.”
11 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִפְרָץ (mifrats) is uncertain, but the parallelism (note “seacoast”) suggests “harbors.”
12 tn Heb “by not summoning us.”
13 tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”
14 tn Heb “What good is it to you?”
15 tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”
16 tn Heb “Did you not hate me and make me leave?”
17 tn Heb “the men of Ephraim were summoned [or “were mustered”].”
18 tn Heb “cross over to fight.”
19 tn Or “calling”; or “summoning.”
20 tn Heb “Your house we will burn over you with fire.”
21 tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”
22 tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”
23 tn Heb “crossed over to.”
24 tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
25 tn Or “come up against.”
26 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
27 tn Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”
28 tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”
