Footnotes

1. Judges 3:6 tn Heb “to their sons.”
2. Judges 3:6 tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).
3. Judges 3:7 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”
4. Judges 3:7 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.
5. Judges 3:8 tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned (or raged) against Israel.”
6. Judges 3:8 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
7. Judges 3:8 tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”
8. Judges 3:8 tc Armon Haraim. Traditionally Aram-Naharaim, and sometimes understood as a place in Mesopotamia. This reading accepts the consonantal text but divides the words after the nun (נ) instead of before. The consonants ארמן הרים could be read with a dual ending as ʾArmon Haraim, meaning “Citadel of the Two Mountains,” or with a plural ending as ʾArmon Harim, meaning “Citadel of the Mountains.” In either case, Cushan Rishathaim is probably a remaining Canaanite king with a fortress in the hill country of Israel. See Beitzel, The Moody Atlas of Bible Lands, 106.
9. Judges 3:8 tn Or “they served Cushan Rishathaim.”