Discovery BoxJudges 5:15-16 
Context5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,
the men of Issachar 1 supported 2 Barak;
into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. 3
Among the clans of Reuben there was intense 4 heart searching. 5
5:16 Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, 6
listening to the shepherds playing their pipes 7 for their flocks? 8
As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.
Judges 5:27
Context5:27 Between her feet he collapsed,
he fell limp 9 and was lifeless; 10
between her feet he collapsed and fell limp,
in the spot where he collapsed,
there he fell limp – violently murdered! 11
Judges 8:10
Context8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. 12
Judges 8:27
Context8:27 Gideon used all this to make 13 an ephod, 14 which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites 15 prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it 16 there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.
Judges 11:34
Context11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out 17 to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. 18 She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.
Judges 18:3
Context18:3 As they approached 19 Micah’s house, they recognized the accent 20 of the young Levite. So they stopped 21 there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” 22
Judges 19:1
Context19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite 23 living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine 24 from Bethlehem 25 in Judah.
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.
Judges 19:15
Context19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night 26 in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. 27
Judges 19:19
Context19:19 We have enough straw and grain for our donkeys, and there is enough food and wine for me, your female servant, 28 and the young man who is with your servants. 29 We lack nothing.”
Judges 20:26
Context20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, 30 went up to 31 Bethel. 32 They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything 33 that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace 34 to the Lord.
Judges 20:39
Context20:39 the Israelites counterattacked. 35 Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; 36 they struck down 37 about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”
Judges 21:19
Context21:19 However, there is an annual festival to the Lord in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel 38 (east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.”
1 tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
2 tn Or “was true to.”
3 tn Heb “at his feet.”
4 tn Heb “great was.”
5 tc The great majority of Hebrew
6 tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (mishpÿtayim) is uncertain. Some understand the word to mean “campfires.”
7 tn Or “whistling.”
8 tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”
9 tn Heb “he fell.” The same Hebrew expression occurs two more times in this verse.
10 tn Heb “and he lay.
11 tn Or “dead, murdered.”
12 tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”
13 tn Heb “made it into.”
14 sn In Exod 28:4-6 and several other texts an ephod is described as a priestly or cultic garment. In some cases an ephod is used to obtain a divine oracle (1 Sam 23:9; 30:7). Here the ephod is made of gold and is described as being quite heavy (70-75 lbs?). Some identify it as an idol, but it was more likely a cultic object fashioned in the form of a garment which was used for oracular purposes. For discussion of the ephod in the OT, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 236-43, and R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 349-52.
15 tn Heb “Israel” (a collective singular).
16 tn The words “by worshiping it” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
17 tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”
18 tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”
19 tn Or “When they were near.”
20 tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).
21 tn Heb “turned aside.”
22 tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”
23 tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”
24 sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.
25 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
26 tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”
27 tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”
28 tn By calling his concubine the old man’s “female servant,” the Levite emphasizes their dependence on him for shelter.
29 tc Some Hebrew
30 tn Heb “and all the people.”
31 tn Heb “went up and came [to].”
32 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
33 tn Traditionally, “fasted.”
34 tn Or “peace offerings.”
35 tn Heb “turned in the battle.”
36 tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”
37 tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
38 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
