InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Hero C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21
Hero 10 V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7 V8 V10 V11 V12 V13 V14 V15 V16 V17 V18
◄ ← HERO (JDG) 10:9 ↓ → ► ║ ≡ ©
People tagged in the matching LV passage: Benjamin (patriarch) · Ephraim (GEN 41:52) · Judah (patriarch)
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Jordan
OET-LV And_ the_people_of ˊAmmōn _they_passed_over DOM the_Yardēn to_fight also against_Yəhūdāh/(Judah) and_against_Binyāmīn and_against_the_house_of ʼEfrayim and_it_was_distress to_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) exceedingly.
OET (OET-RV) Then the Amonim also crossed over the Yarden to fight against Yehudah (Judah), against Benyamin, and against the half-tribe of Efrayim (Ephraim).
¶ This caused incredible distress for the Israelis
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וּבְבֵ֣ית אֶפְרָ֑יִם
and,against,the_house_of Efrayim
The author is using the word house to mean all the people descended from a particular person. So by the house of Ephraim, he means all the people descended from Ephraim, who was one of the twelve sons of Jacob. It is not clear why he uses this expression for this tribe but not for the other two tribes he mentions. In your translation, you could speak of Ephraim the same way the author speaks of Judah and Benjamin. Alternate translation: [and with Ephraim]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
וַתֵּ֥צֶר לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מְאֹֽד
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_passed_over sons_of ˊAmmōn DOM the,Jordan to,fight also/yet against,Judah and,against,Benjamin and,against,the_house_of Efrayim and,it_was_distress to,Israel very )
See how you translated the same expression in 2:15. Alternate translation: [and Israel was in great distress]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
וַתֵּ֥צֶר לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מְאֹֽד
(Some words not found in UHB: and,they_passed_over sons_of ˊAmmōn DOM the,Jordan to,fight also/yet against,Judah and,against,Benjamin and,against,the_house_of Efrayim and,it_was_distress to,Israel very )
See the discussion in the Introduction to Judges of the use of a person’s name to mean his descendants, and see how you translated the similar expression in 1:1. Alternate translation: [and the Israelites were in great distress]
OET-LV And_ the_people_of ˊAmmōn _they_passed_over DOM the_Yardēn to_fight also against_Yəhūdāh/(Judah) and_against_Binyāmīn and_against_the_house_of ʼEfrayim and_it_was_distress to_Yisrāʼēl/(Israel) exceedingly.
OET (OET-RV) Then the Amonim also crossed over the Yarden to fight against Yehudah (Judah), against Benyamin, and against the half-tribe of Efrayim (Ephraim).
¶ This caused incredible distress for the Israelis
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.