Discovery BoxJudges 4:18-19 
Context4:18 Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him, “Stop and rest, 1 my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera 2 stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him. 4:19 He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.
Judges 6:32
Context6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, 3 because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”
Judges 6:35
Context6:35 He sent messengers throughout Manasseh and summoned them to follow him as well. 4 He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him.
Judges 8:1
Context8:1 The Ephraimites said to him, “Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us 5 when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.
Judges 8:14
Context8:14 He captured a young man from Succoth 6 and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. 7
Judges 9:38
Context9:38 Zebul said to him, “Where now are your bragging words, 8 ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men 9 you insulted? 10 Go out now and fight them!”
Judges 9:54
Context9:54 He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons, 11 “Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say, 12 ‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man stabbed him and he died.
Judges 15:14
Context15:14 When he arrived in Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they approached him. But the Lord’s spirit empowered 13 him. The ropes around his arms were like flax dissolving in 14 fire, and they 15 melted away from his hands.
Judges 16:31
Context16:31 His brothers and all his family 16 went down and brought him back. 17 They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led 18 Israel for twenty years.
Judges 19:4
Context19:4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.
1 tn Heb “Turn aside” (also a second time later in this verse).
2 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”
4 tn Heb “and he also was summoned after him.”
5 tn Heb “by not summoning us.”
6 tn Heb “from the men of Succoth.”
7 tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”
8 tn Heb “is your mouth that says.”
9 tn Heb “the people.”
10 tn Or “despised.”
11 tn The Hebrew text adds, “and said to him.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
12 tn The Hebrew text adds, “concerning me.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
13 tn Heb “rushed on.”
14 tn Heb “burned with.”
15 tn Heb “his bonds.”
16 tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”
17 tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”
18 tn Traditionally, “judged.”
