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Judges 3:25

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3:25 They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. 1  Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor! 2 

Judges 3:24

Context

3:24 When Ehud had left, Eglon’s 3  servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, “He must be relieving himself 4  in the well-ventilated inner room.” 5 

Judges 11:31

Context
11:31 then whoever is the first to come through 6  the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites – he 7  will belong to the Lord and 8  I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.”

1 tn The words “the doors” are supplied.

2 tn Heb “See, their master, fallen to the ground, dead.”

3 tn Heb “his.”

4 tn Heb “covering his feet” (i.e., with his outer garments while he relieves himself).

5 tn The Hebrew expression translated “well-ventilated inner room” may refer to the upper room itself or to a bathroom attached to or within it.

6 tn Heb “the one coming out, who comes out from.” The text uses a masculine singular participle with prefixed article, followed by a relative pronoun and third masculine singular verb. The substantival masculine singular participle הַיּוֹצֵא (hayyotse’, “the one coming out”) is used elsewhere of inanimate objects (such as a desert [Num 21:13] or a word [Num 32:24]) or persons (Jer 5:6; 21:9; 38:2). In each case context must determine the referent. Jephthah may have envisioned an animal meeting him, since the construction of Iron Age houses would allow for an animal coming through the doors of a house (see R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 208). But the fact that he actually does offer up his daughter indicates the language of the vow is fluid enough to encompass human beings, including women. He probably intended such an offering from the very beginning, but he obviously did not expect his daughter to meet him first.

7 tn The language is fluid enough to include women and perhaps even animals, but the translation uses the masculine pronoun because the Hebrew form is grammatically masculine.

8 tn Some translate “or,” suggesting that Jephthah makes a distinction between humans and animals. According to this view, if a human comes through the door, then Jephthah will commit him/her to the Lord’s service, but if an animal comes through the doors, he will offer it up as a sacrifice. However, it is far more likely that the Hebrew construction (vav [ו] + perfect) specifies how the subject will become the Lord’s, that is, by being offered up as a sacrifice. For similar constructions, where the apodosis of a conditional sentence has at least two perfects (each with vav) in sequence, see Gen 34:15-16; Exod 18:16.



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