Discovery BoxJudges 7:2 
Context7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. 1 Israel might brag, 2 ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ 3
Judges 7:18
Context7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”
Judges 9:8
Context9:8 “The trees were determined to go out 4 and choose a king for themselves. 5 They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ 6
Judges 10:10
Context10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped 7 the Baals.”
Judges 11:19
Context11:19 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, “Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.” 8
Judges 18:5
Context18:5 They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, 9 so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.” 10
Judges 21:18
Context21:18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, 11 for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’ 12
1 tn Heb “the people who are with you are too numerous for me to give Midian into their hand.”
2 tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”
3 tn Heb “my hand has delivered me.”
4 tn Heb “Going they went, the trees.” The precise emphatic force of the infinitive absolute (“Going”) is not entirely clear. Perhaps here it indicates determination, as in Gen 31:30, where one might translate, “You have insisted on going away.”
5 tn Heb “to anoint [with oil] over them a king.”
6 tn Or “Rule over us!”
7 tn Or “served”; or “followed.”
8 tn Heb “to my place.”
9 tn Heb “Ask God.”
10 tn Heb “so we can know if our way on which we are going will be successful.”
11 tn Heb “But we are not able to give to them wives from our daughters.”
12 tn Heb “is cursed.”
