Discovery BoxJudges 8:24 
Context8:24 Gideon continued, 1 “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.” 2 (The Midianites 3 had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
Judges 9:33
Context9:33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.” 4
Judges 18:9
Context18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, 5 for 6 we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, 7 but don’t hesitate 8 to invade and conquer 9 the land.
1 tn Heb “said to them.”
2 tn Heb “Give to me, each one, an earring from his plunder.”
3 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Midianites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “Look! He and the people who are with him will come out to you, and you will do to him what your hand finds [to do].”
5 tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”
6 tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”
7 tn Heb “But you are inactive.”
8 tn Or “be lazy.”
9 tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”
