Judges 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up¹ food scraps² under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.”³ They brought him to Jerusalem,⁴ where he died.

Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified⁵ tower⁶ in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 18:2-3

18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives,⁷ capable men⁸ from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house.⁹ 18:3 As they approached¹⁰ Micah’s house, they recognized the accent¹¹ of the young Levite. So they stopped¹² there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”¹³

Judges 18:10

18:10 When you invade,¹⁴ you will encounter¹⁵ unsuspecting people. The land is wide!¹⁶ God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!”¹⁷

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole¹⁸ the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.¹⁹

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite²⁰ said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem²¹ in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home.²² But no one has invited me into their home.

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army,²³ went up to²⁴ Bethel.²⁵ They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything²⁶ that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace²⁷ to the Lord.

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors²⁸ against Jabesh Gilead.²⁹ They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords³⁰ the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

¹tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

²tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

³tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

⁴map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁵tn Or “strong.”

⁶tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

⁹tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”

¹⁰tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

¹¹tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”

¹³tn Or “When they were near.”

¹⁴tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

¹⁵tn Heb “turned aside.”

¹⁶tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

¹⁷tn Heb “When you enter.”

¹⁸tn Heb “you will come to.”

¹⁹tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

²⁰tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

²¹tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

²²tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

²⁵tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²⁶map For location see Map5-B1; Map7-E2; Map8-E2; Map10-B4.

²⁷tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”

²⁹tn Heb “and all the people.”

³⁰tn Heb “went up and came [to].”

³¹map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

³²tn Traditionally, “fasted.”

³³tn Or “peace offerings.”

³³tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

³⁴tn Heb “there.”

³⁵tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”