Judges 1:12-13

1:12 Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.” 1:13 When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, ¹  captured it, Caleb ²  gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.

Judges 1:24

1:24 the spies spotted ³  a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

Judges 3:16

3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ⁴  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Judges 6:24

6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” ⁵  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6:32

6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, ⁶  because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

Judges 8:19

8:19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, ⁷  as surely as the Lord is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”

Judges 9:4

9:4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous ⁸  men as his followers. ⁹ 

Judges 9:25

9:25 The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting ¹⁰  bandits in ¹¹  the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it. ¹² 

Judges 11:15

11:15 and said to him, “This is what Jephthah says, ‘Israel did not steal ¹³  the land of Moab and the land of the Ammonites.

Judges 11:19

11:19 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, “Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.” ¹⁴ 

Judges 12:14

12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys. He led Israel for eight years.

Judges 13:11

13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met ¹⁵  the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” ¹⁶  He said, “Yes.” ¹⁷ 

Judges 14:13

14:13 But if you cannot solve it, ¹⁸  you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.” They said to him, “Let us hear your riddle.” ¹⁹ 

Judges 15:10

15:10 The men of Judah said, “Why are you attacking ²⁰  us?” The Philistines ²¹  said, “We have come up to take Samson prisoner so we can do to him what he has done to us.”

Judges 15:12

15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me ²²  you will not kill ²³  me.”

Judges 17:9

17:9 Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live.” ²⁴ 

¹ tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel was Caleb’s nephew; so CEV).

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Caleb) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Heb “saw.”

¹ tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

¹ tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

¹ tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”

¹ tn The words “I swear” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹ tn Heb “empty and reckless.”

² tn Heb “and they followed him.”

¹ tn Heb “set against him bandits.”

² tn Heb “on the tops of.”

³ tn Heb “It was told to Abimelech.”

¹ tn Or “take”; or “seize.”

¹ tn Heb “to my place.”

¹ tn Heb “came to.”

² tn Heb “the woman.”

³ tn Heb “I [am].”

¹ tn Heb “you are unable to tell me.”

² tn Heb “Give your riddle so we can hear it.”

¹ tn Or “come up against.”

² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Philistines) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹ tn Or “swear to me.”

² tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.

¹ tn Heb “And I am going to reside in a place I can find.”