Hakim-hakim 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ¹  food scraps ²  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ³  They brought him to Jerusalem, ⁴  where he died.

Hakim-hakim 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River ⁵  opposite Ephraim. ⁶  Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive ⁷  said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked ⁸  him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Hakim-hakim 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ⁹  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ¹⁰  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Hakim-hakim 18:1

The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance

18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place ¹¹  to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. ¹² 

Hakim-hakim 18:3

18:3 As they approached ¹³  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ¹⁴  of the young Levite. So they stopped ¹⁵  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ¹⁶ 

Hakim-hakim 19:10

19:10 But the man did not want to stay another night. He left ¹⁷  and traveled as far as ¹⁸  Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). ¹⁹  He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. ²⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 21:5

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ²¹ 

[1:7]  ¹ tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

[1:7]  ² tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

[1:7]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:5]  ⁵ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:5]  ⁶ tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

[12:5]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

[12:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “say to.”

[13:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “The man of God.”

[13:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

[18:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “an inheritance.”

[18:1]  ¹² tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”

[18:3]  ¹³ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ¹⁴ 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).

[18:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

[19:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and he arose and went.”

[19:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to the front of.”

[19:10]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[19:10]  ²⁰ tc Some ancient witnesses add “and his servant.”

[21:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”