Discovery BoxJudges 9:48 
Context9:48 He and all his men 1 went up on Mount Zalmon. He 2 took an ax 3 in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it 4 on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” 5
Judges 18:17
Context18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole 6 the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. 7
1 tn Heb “his people.”
2 tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.
3 tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.
4 tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”
5 tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”
6 tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”
7 tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”
