Hakim-hakim 9:42

9:42 The next day the Shechemites ¹  came out to the field. When Abimelech heard about it, ² 

Hakim-hakim 10:12

10:12 the Sidonians, Amalek, and Midian ³  when they oppressed you? ⁴  You cried out for help to me, and I delivered you from their power. ⁵ 

Hakim-hakim 19:7

19:7 When the man got ready to leave, ⁶  his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night. ⁷ 

Hakim-hakim 20:41

20:41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked ⁸  because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep. ⁹ 

Hakim-hakim 21:11

21:11 Do this: ¹⁰  exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has had sexual relations with a male. ¹¹  But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed. ¹² 

[9:42]  ¹ tn Heb “the people”; the referent (the Shechemites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:42]  ² tn Heb “And they told Abimelech.”

[10:12]  ³ tc The translation follows the LXX which reads “Midian”; the Hebrew text has “Maon.”

[10:12]  ⁴ tn The words “Did I not deliver you” are interpretive. The Hebrew text simply reads, “Is it not from Egypt…when they oppressed you?” Perhaps the incomplete sentence reflects the Lord’s frustration.

[10:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “hand.”

[19:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the man arose to go.”

[19:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”

[20:41]  ⁸ tn Or “were terrified.”

[20:41]  ⁹ tn Heb “disaster touched against them.”

[21:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And this is the thing that you will do.”

[21:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “every woman who is familiar with the bed of a male.”

[21:11]  ¹² tc Some Greek witnesses (notably Codex Vaticanus [B]) add the words, “‘But the virgins you should keep alive.’ And they did so.” These additional words, which probably represent the original Hebrew text, can be retroverted: וְאֶת־הַבְּתוּלוֹת תְּחַיּוּ וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כֵן (ve’et-habbÿtulot tÿkhayyu vayya’asu khen). It is likely that a scribe’s eye jumped from the vav (ו) on וְאֶת (vÿ’et) to the initial vav of v. 11, accidentally leaving out the intervening letters. The present translation is based on this reconstruction.