Judges 3:8 New English Translation
8 The Lord was furious with Israel[a] and turned them over to[b] King Cushan Rishathaim[c] of Armon Haraim.[d] They were Cushan Rishathaim’s subjects[e] for eight years.
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- Judges 3:8 tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned (or raged) against Israel.”
- Judges 3:8 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
- Judges 3:8 tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”
- 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.
- Judges 3:8 tn Or “they served Cushan Rishathaim.”
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