Discovery BoxJudges 5:13 
Context5:13 Then the survivors 1 came down 2 to the mighty ones; 3
the Lord’s people came down to me 4 as 5 warriors.
Judges 11:12
Context11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, “Why have 6 you come against me to attack my land?”
Judges 11:30
Context11:30 Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,
Judges 13:18
Context13:18 The Lord’s messenger said to him, “You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.” 7
Judges 16:6
Context16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, “Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated.” 8
Judges 17:13
Context17:13 Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, 9 because I have this Levite as my priest.”
Judges 18:4
Context18:4 He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, 10 “He hired me and I became his priest.”
1 tn This probably refers to those who responded to the call for war. They were “survivors” of the Canaanite oppression (see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 250).
2 tn The translation assumes a repointing of the verb as a perfect or imperfect/preterite form of יָרַד (yarad, “to go down”). The form as pointed in the MT appears to be from רָדָה (radah, “to rule”). See GKC 188 §69.g. The same form, translated “came down,” occurs in the next line as well.
3 sn The expression mighty ones probably refers to the leaders of the army.
4 sn The speaker may be Deborah here.
5 tn The translation assumes the preposition ב (bet) prefixed to “warriors” has the force of “in the capacity of.” For this use of the preposition, see GKC 379 §119.i.
6 tn Heb “What to me and to you that…?”
7 tn Heb “Why do you ask for my name, for it is incomprehensible?” The Hebrew adjective פִּלְאִי (pile’iy, “wonderful, incomprehensible”) refers to what is in a category of its own and is beyond full human understanding. Note the use of this word in Ps 139:6, where God’s knowledge is described as incomprehensible and unattainable.
8 tn Heb “how you can be subdued in order to be humiliated.”
9 tn Heb “do good for me.”
10 tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.
