Judges 1:28

1:28 Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

Judges 1:32

1:32 The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

Judges 3:14

3:14 The Israelites were subject to ¹  King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

Judges 3:30

3:30 Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

Judges 4:12

4:12 When Sisera heard ²  that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ³  Israelite women commemorate ⁴  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ⁵ 

Judges 13:18

13:18 The Lord’s messenger said to him, “You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.” ⁶ 

Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ⁷  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

¹ tn Or “the Israelites served Eglon.”

¹ tn Heb “and they told Sisera.”

¹ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

² tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

³ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹ tn Heb “Why do you ask for my name, for it is incomprehensible?” The Hebrew adjective פִּלְאִי (pile’iy, “wonderful, incomprehensible”) refers to what is in a category of its own and is beyond full human understanding. Note the use of this word in Ps 139:6, where God’s knowledge is described as incomprehensible and unattainable.

¹ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.