Hakim-hakim 3:16

3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ¹  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Hakim-hakim 18:31

18:31 They worshiped ²  Micah’s carved image ³  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ⁴  was in Shiloh.

[3:16]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

[18:31]  ² tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

[18:31]  ³ tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

[18:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “the house of God.”