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 7:11
7:11 and listen to what they are saying. Then you will be brave
1 and attack the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to where the sentries were guarding the camp.
2
Judges 7:20
7:20 All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right.
3 Then they yelled, “A sword for the
Lord and for Gideon!”
Judges 16:26
16:26 Samson said to the young man who held his hand, “Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple.
4 Then I can lean on them.”
Judges 19:4
19:4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.
Judges 19:29
19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces.
5 Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.
6
Judges 20:22
20:22 The Israelite army 7 took heart 8 and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.
Judges 3:12
Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance
3:12 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. 9 The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel 10 because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.
Judges 7:8
7:8 The men
11 who were chosen
12 took supplies
13 and their trumpets. Gideon
14 sent all the men of Israel back to their homes;
15 he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites
16 were camped down below
17 in the valley.
Judges 9:24
9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother
18 who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.
19
Judges 16:28
16:28 Samson called to the
Lord, “O Master,
Lord,
20 remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge
21 against the Philistines for my two eyes!”
Judges 19:25
19:25 The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite
22 grabbed his concubine and made her go outside.
23 They raped
24 her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.
1 tn Heb “your hands will be strengthened.”
2 tn Heb “to the edge of the ones in battle array who were in the camp.”
1 tn The Hebrew text adds, “in order to blow [them].” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.
1 tn Heb “the pillars upon which the house is founded.”
1 tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”
2 tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”
1 tn Heb “The people, the men of Israel.”
2 tn Or “encouraged one another.”
1 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord” (also later in this verse).
2 tn Heb “strengthened Eglon…against Israel.”
1 tn Heb “The people.”
2 tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
3 tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 tn Heb “tents.”
6 tn Heb “Midian.”
7 tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).
1 tn Heb “their brother.”
2 tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”
1 tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).
2 tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”
1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”
3 tn Heb “knew,” in the sexual sense.