Judges 1:4

1:4 The men of Judah attacked, ¹  and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 1:8

1:8 The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

Judges 1:10

1:10 The men of Judah attacked the Canaanites living in Hebron. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba.) They killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

Judges 1:12

1:12 Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

Judges 1:17

1:17 The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon ²  and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. ³  So people now call the city Hormah. ⁴ 

Judges 1:25

1:25 He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

Judges 3:13

3:13 Eglon formed alliances with ⁵  the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

Judges 3:29

3:29 That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites ⁶  – all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

Judges 3:31

3:31 After Ehud ⁷  came ⁸  Shamgar son of Anath; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud, ⁹  delivered Israel.

Judges 8:11

8:11 Gideon went up the road of the nomads ¹⁰  east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army. ¹¹ 

Judges 9:43-44

9:43 he took his men ¹²  and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, ¹³  he attacked and struck them down. ¹⁴  9:44 Abimelech and his units ¹⁵  attacked and blocked ¹⁶  the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

Judges 20:37

20:37 The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash ¹⁷  to Gibeah. They ¹⁸  attacked ¹⁹  and put the sword to the entire city.

¹ tn Heb “Judah went up.”

² tn Heb “Judah went with Simeon, his brother.”

³ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Zephath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ sn The name Hormah (חָרְמָה, khormah) sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “wipe out” (חָרַם, kharam).

³ tn Heb “and he gathered to him.”

⁴ tn Heb “They struck Moab that day – about ten thousand men.”

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

⁶ tn Heb “was.”

⁷ tn Heb “also he”; the referent (Ehud) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “the ones living in tents.”

⁷ tn Heb “and attacked the army, while the army was secure.” The Hebrew term בֶטַח (vetakh, “secure”) probably means the army was undefended (see R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 156), not suspecting an attack at that time and place.

⁷ tn Heb “his people.”

⁸ tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

⁹ tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

⁸ tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”

⁹ tn Heb “stood [at].”

⁹ tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the men hiding in ambush.”

¹¹ tn Or “deployed.” The verb normally means “to lead” or “to draw.”