Judges 1:26

1:26 He¹ moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

Judges 2:2

2:2 but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’² But you have disobeyed me.³ Why would you do such a thing?⁴

Judges 3:25

3:25 They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors.⁵ Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!⁶

Judges 5:4

5:4 O Lord, when you departed⁷ from Seir,

when you marched from Edom’s plains,

the earth shook, the heavens poured down,

the clouds poured down rain.⁸

Judges 5:31

5:31 May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!

But may those who love you shine

like the rising sun at its brightest!”⁹

And the land had rest for forty years.

Judges 6:4-5

6:4 They invaded the land¹⁰ and devoured¹¹ its crops¹² all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat,¹³ and they took away¹⁴ the sheep, oxen, and donkeys. 6:5 When they invaded¹⁵ with their cattle and tents, they were as thick¹⁶ as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted.¹⁷ They came to devour¹⁸ the land.

Judges 6:9-10

6:9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power¹⁹ and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you. 6:10 I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship²⁰ the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’”²¹

Judges 6:40

6:40 That night God did as he asked.²² Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Judges 8:28

Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken.²³ The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time.²⁴

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center²⁵ of the land. A unit²⁶ is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”²⁷

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left²⁸ his half-brothers²⁹ and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him.³⁰

Judges 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked,³¹ the leaders³² of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back³³ from the land of Tob.

Judges 11:12

Jephthah Gives a History Lesson

11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, “Why have³⁴ you come against me to attack my land?”

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.”³⁵

Judges 13:20

13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it³⁶ while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown³⁷ to the ground.

Judges 20:1

Civil War Breaks Out

20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba³⁸ and from the land of Gilead³⁹ left their homes⁴⁰ and assembled together⁴¹ before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.⁴²

¹tn Heb “the man.”

²tn Heb “their altars.”

³tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

⁴tn Heb “What is this you have done?”

³tn The words “the doors” are supplied.

⁴tn Heb “See, their master, fallen to the ground, dead.”

⁴tn Or “went out.”

⁵tn Heb “water.”

⁵tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

⁶tn Heb “They encamped against them.”

⁷tn Heb “destroyed.”

⁸tn Heb “the crops of the land.”

⁹tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”

¹⁰tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷tn Heb “came up.”

⁸tn Heb “numerous.”

⁹tn Heb “To them and to their camels there was no number.”

¹⁰tn Heb “destroy.” The translation “devour” carries through the imagery of a locust plague earlier in this verse.

⁸tn Heb “hand” (also a second time later in this verse).

⁹tn Heb “Do not fear.”

¹⁰tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

¹⁰tn Heb “God did so that night.”

¹¹tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”

¹²tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”

¹²tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

¹³tn Heb “head.”

¹⁴tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

¹³tn Or “fled from.”

¹⁴tn Heb “brothers.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

¹⁴tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

¹⁵tn Or “elders.”

¹⁶tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

¹⁵tn Heb “What to me and to you that…?”

¹⁶tn Heb “to my place.”

¹⁷tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

¹⁸tn Heb “on their faces.”

¹⁸sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

¹⁹sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

²⁰tn Heb “went out.”

²¹tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”

¹⁹tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”