Judges 1:9

1:9 Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands. ¹ 

Judges 1:19

1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered ²  the hill country, but they could not ³  conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels. ⁴ 

Judges 3:27

3:27 When he reached Seirah, ⁵  he blew a trumpet ⁶  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead. ⁷ 

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ⁸  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ⁹  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

² tn Or “seized possession of”; or “occupied.”

³ tc Several textual witnesses support the inclusion of this verb.

⁴ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

³ tn Heb “When he arrived.”

⁴ tn That is, “mustered an army.”

⁵ tn Heb “now he was before them.”

⁴ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

⁵ tn Heb “with the bar.”

⁶ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”