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 4:10

4:10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him;² Deborah went up with him as well.

Judges 8:8

8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request.³ The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.⁴

Judges 8:11

8:11 Gideon went up the road of the nomads⁵ east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army.⁶

Judges 13:19-20

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.⁷ 13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it⁸ while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown⁹ to the ground.

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home,¹⁰ he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye.¹¹ Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 2:1

Confrontation and Repentance at Bokim

2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger¹² went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors.¹³ I said, ‘I will never break my agreement¹⁴ with you,

Judges 14:19

14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes¹⁵ and gave them¹⁶ to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.¹⁷

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men¹⁸ went up on Mount Zalmon. He¹⁹ took an ax²⁰ in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it²¹ on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!”²²

¹tn Heb “Judah went up.”

²tn Heb “went up at his feet.”

³tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”

⁴tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”

⁴tn Heb “the ones living in tents.”

⁵tn 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.

⁵tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

⁶tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

⁷tn Heb “on their faces.”

⁷tn Heb “and he went up.”

⁸tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

⁸sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.

⁹tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”

¹⁰tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).

⁹tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”

¹⁰tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”

¹¹tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”

¹⁰tn Heb “his people.”

¹¹tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

¹²tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

¹³tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

¹⁴tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”