Discovery BoxJudges 3:7 
Context3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. 1 They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. 2
Judges 5:3
Context5:3 Hear, O kings!
Pay attention, O rulers!
I will sing to the Lord! 3
I will sing 4 to the Lord God of Israel!
Judges 6:1
Context6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, 5 so the Lord turned them over to 6 Midian for seven years.
Judges 10:16
Context10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned 7 and worshiped 8 the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. 9
Judges 13:1
Context13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, 10 so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
2 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.
3 tn Heb “I, to the
4 tn Or “make music.”
5 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
6 tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”
7 tn Heb “from their midst.”
8 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”
9 tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).
10 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
