Discovery BoxJudges 9:17 
Context9:17 my father fought for you; he risked his life 1 and delivered you from Midian’s power. 2
Judges 9:56
Context9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 3
Judges 11:1
Context11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father. 4
Judges 19:7
Context19:7 When the man got ready to leave, 5 his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night. 6
1 tc Heb “threw his life out in front,” that is, “exposed himself to danger.” The MT form מִנֶּגֶד (minneged, “from before”) should probably be read as מִנֶּגְדּוֹ (minnegdo, “from before him”); haplography of vav has likely occurred here in the MT.
2 tn Heb “hand.”
3 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”
4 tn Heb “Now he was the son of a woman, a prostitute, and Gilead fathered Jephthah.”
5 tn Heb “and the man arose to go.”
6 tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”
