Hakim-hakim 5:16

5:16 Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, ¹ 

listening to the shepherds playing their pipes ²  for their flocks? ³ 

As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.

Hakim-hakim 8:14

8:14 He captured a young man from Succoth ⁴  and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. ⁵ 

[5:16]  ¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (mishpÿtayim) is uncertain. Some understand the word to mean “campfires.”

[5:16]  ² tn Or “whistling.”

[5:16]  ³ tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”

[8:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the men of Succoth.”

[8:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “wrote down for him the officials of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.”