Hakim-hakim 18:8-10

18:8 When the Danites returned to their tribe ¹  in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen ²  asked them, “How did it go?” ³  18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, ⁴  for ⁵  we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, ⁶  but don’t hesitate ⁷  to invade and conquer ⁸  the land. 18:10 When you invade, ⁹  you will encounter ¹⁰  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ¹¹  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ¹² 

[18:8]  ¹ tn Heb “They came to their brothers.”

[18:8]  ² tn Heb “brothers.”

[18:8]  ³ tn Heb “What you?”

[18:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”

[18:9]  ⁵ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”

[18:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “But you are inactive.”

[18:9]  ⁷ tn Or “be lazy.”

[18:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”

[18:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ¹² tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”