Footnotes

1. Judges 2:11 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
2. Judges 2:11 tn Or “serving”; or “following.”
3. Judges 2:12 tn Or “fathers.”
4. Judges 2:12 tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).
5. Judges 2:13 sn The Ashtoreths were local manifestations of the goddess Astarte.
6. Judges 2:14 tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”
7. Judges 2:14 tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)sn The expression robbers who plundered them is a derogatory reference to the enemy nations, as the next line indicates.
8. Judges 2:14 tn Heb “sold them into the hand of.”
9. Judges 2:14 tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.
10. Judges 2:15 tn The expression “to fight” is interpretive.
11. Judges 2:15 tn Heb “the Lord’s hand was against them for harm.”
12. Judges 2:15 tn Heb “just as he had said and just as he had sworn to them.”
13. Judges 2:15 tn Or “they experienced great distress.”
14. Judges 2:16 tn Or more traditionally, “judges” (also in vv. 17, 18 [3x], 19). Since these figures carried out more than a judicial function, also serving as rulers and (in several instances) as military commanders, the translation uses the term “leaders.”
15. Judges 2:16 tn Heb “and they delivered them from the hand of the ones robbing them.”
16. Judges 2:17 tn Or “did not listen to.”
17. Judges 2:17 tn Or “bowed before.”
18. Judges 2:17 tn Or “way [of life].”
19. Judges 2:17 tn Or “fathers.”
20. Judges 2:17 tn Heb “…walked, obeying the Lord’s commands. They did not do this.”
21. Judges 2:18 tn Heb “them”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
22. Judges 2:18 tn The phrase “for them” is supplied in the translation for clarity.
23. Judges 2:18 tn Heb “the ones oppressing them and afflicting them.” The synonyms “oppressing” and “afflicting” are joined together in the translation as “harsh oppressors” to emphasize the cruel character of their enemies.
24. Judges 2:19 tn Heb “they”; the referent (the next generation) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
25. Judges 2:19 tn The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to return; to turn”) is sometimes translated “turn back” here, but it is probably used in an adverbial sense, indicating that the main action (“act wickedly”) is being repeated.
26. Judges 2:19 tn Heb “their fathers.”sn The statement the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one must refer to the successive sinful generations after Joshua, not Joshua’s godly generation (cf. vv. 7, 17).
27. Judges 2:19 tn Or “serving [them]”; or “following [them].”
28. Judges 2:19 tn Or “drop.”