Judges 1:2

1:2 The Lord said, “The men of Judah should take the lead. ¹  Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them.” ² 

Judges 1:34

1:34 The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in ³  the coastal plain.

Judges 2:23

2:23 This is why ⁴  the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; ⁵  he did not hand them over to Joshua.

Judges 3:6

3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ⁶  they worshiped ⁷  their gods as well.

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, ⁸  so the Lord turned them over to ⁹  Midian for seven years.

Judges 7:9

Gideon Reassured of Victory

7:9 That night the Lord said to Gideon, ¹⁰  “Get up! Attack ¹¹  the camp, for I am handing it over to you. ¹² 

Judges 8:6

8:6 The officials of Succoth said, “You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give ¹³  bread to your army?” ¹⁴ 

Judges 11:32

11:32 Jephthah approached ¹⁵  the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him.

Judges 21:1

600 Brides for 600 Brothers

21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

¹ tn Heb “Judah should go up.”

² tn The Hebrew exclamation הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally, “Behold”), translated “Be sure of this,” draws attention to the following statement. The verb form in the following statement (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the Lord speaks of it as a “done deal.”

³ tn Heb “come down into.”

⁵ tn The words “this is why” are interpretive.

⁶ tn Or “quickly.”

⁷ tn Heb “to their sons.”

⁸ tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).

⁹ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹² tn Heb “Go down against.”

¹³ tn The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, emphasizing the certainty of the promise.

¹³ tn Or perhaps, “sell.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “Are the palms of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give to your army bread?” Perhaps the reference to the kings’ “palms” should be taken literally. The officials of Succoth may be alluding to the practice of mutilating prisoners or enemy corpses (see R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 155).

¹⁵ tn Heb “passed over to.”