Judges 1:5

1:5 They met ¹  Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Judges 2:6

The End of an Era

2:6 When Joshua dismissed ²  the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, ³  intending to take possession of the land.

Judges 2:11

A Monotonous Cycle

2:11 The Israelites did evil before ⁴  the Lord by worshiping ⁵  the Baals.

Judges 3:6

3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ⁶  they worshiped ⁷  their gods as well.

Judges 3:18

3:18 After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it. ⁸ 

Judges 9:56

9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ⁹ 

Judges 10:16

10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned ¹⁰  and worshiped ¹¹  the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. ¹² 

Judges 12:11

12:11 After him Elon the Zebulunite led ¹³  Israel for ten years. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Or “found.”

² tn Or “sent away.”

³ tn Heb “the Israelites went each to his inheritance.”

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁴ tn Or “serving”; or “following.”

⁴ tn Heb “to their sons.”

⁵ tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).

⁵ tn Heb “the tribute payment.”

⁶ tn Heb “seventy brothers.”

⁷ tn Heb “from their midst.”

⁸ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

⁹ tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).

⁸ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

⁹ tn Heb “…led Israel. He led Israel for ten years.”