Judges 1:20

1:20 Caleb received ¹  Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

Judges 2:4

2:4 When the Lord’s messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly. ² 

Judges 2:15

2:15 Whenever they went out to fight, ³  the Lord did them harm, ⁴  just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. ⁵  They suffered greatly. ⁶ 

Judges 5:12

5:12 Wake up, wake up, Deborah!

Wake up, wake up, sing a song!

Get up, Barak!

Capture your prisoners of war, ⁷  son of Abinoam!

Judges 6:17

6:17 Gideon ⁸  said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, ⁹  then give me ¹⁰  a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

Judges 7:11

7:11 and listen to what they are saying. Then you will be brave ¹¹  and attack the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to where the sentries were guarding the camp. ¹² 

Judges 8:8

8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. ¹³  The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had. ¹⁴ 

Judges 9:1

Abimelech Murders His Brothers

9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. ¹⁵  He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, ¹⁶ 

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹⁷  of the land. A unit ¹⁸  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ¹⁹ 

Judges 13:11

13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met ²⁰  the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” ²¹  He said, “Yes.” ²² 

Judges 16:10

16:10 Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived ²³  me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

Judges 20:3

20:3 The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said, “Explain how this wicked thing happened!”

Judges 21:13

21:13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed. ²⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “they gave to Caleb.”

² tn Heb “lifted their voices and wept.”

³ tn The expression “to fight” is interpretive.

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord’s hand was against them for harm.”

⁵ tn Heb “just as he had said and just as he had sworn to them.”

⁶ tn Or “they experienced great distress.”

⁴ tn Heb “take captive your captives.” (The Hebrew text uses a cognate accusative here.)

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “If I have found favor in your eyes.”

⁷ tn Heb “perform for me.”

⁶ tn Heb “your hands will be strengthened.”

⁷ tn Heb “to the edge of the ones in battle array who were in the camp.”

⁷ tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”

⁸ tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”

⁸ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁹ tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”

⁹ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

¹⁰ tn Heb “head.”

¹¹ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

¹⁰ tn Heb “came to.”

¹¹ tn Heb “the woman.”

¹² tn Heb “I [am].”

¹¹ tn See Gen 31:7; Exod 8:29 [8:25 HT]; Job 13:9; Isa 44:20; Jer 9:4 for other uses of this Hebrew word (II תָּלַל, talal), which also occurs in v. 13.

¹² tn Heb “And all the assembly sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the cliff of Rimmon and they proclaimed to them peace.”