Judges 14:11

14:11 When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company. ¹ 

Judges 1:6

1:6 When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Judges 8:4

Gideon Tracks Down the Midianite Kings

8:4 Now Gideon and his three hundred men had crossed over the Jordan River, and even though they were exhausted, they were still chasing the Midianites. ² 

Judges 1:3

1:3 The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon, ³  “Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites. ⁴  Then we ⁵  will go with you into your allotted land.” So the men of Simeon went with them.

Judges 9:35

9:35 When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.

Judges 19:4

19:4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

Judges 4:13

4:13 he ⁶  ordered ⁷  all his chariotry – nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels – and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.

Judges 7:1

Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ⁸  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ⁹  The Midianites ¹⁰  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Judges 7:19

7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp ¹¹  at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying. ¹² 

Judges 8:1

8:1 The Ephraimites said to him, “Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us ¹³  when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.

Judges 9:33

9:33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.” ¹⁴ 

Judges 16:24

16:24 When the people saw him, ¹⁵  they praised their god, saying, “Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!” ¹⁶ 

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ¹⁷  went down and brought him back. ¹⁸  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ¹⁹  Israel for twenty years.

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ²⁰  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ²¹  took an ax ²²  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ²³  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ²⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “When they saw him, they gave him thirty companions and they were with him.” Instead of כִּרְאוֹתָם (kir’otam, “when they saw”) some ancient witnesses (e.g., some mss of the LXX) assume the reading בְּיִרְאָתָם (bÿyir’atam, “because they feared”).

² tn Heb “And Gideon arrived at the Jordan, crossing over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, exhausted and chasing.” The English past perfect (“had crossed”) is used because this verse flashes back chronologically to an event that preceded the hostile encounter described in vv. 1-3. (Note that 7:25 assumes Gideon had already crossed the Jordan.)

³ tn Heb “Judah said to Simeon, his brother.”

⁴ tn Heb “Come up with me into our allotted land and let us attack the Canaanites.”

⁵ tn Heb “I.” The Hebrew pronoun is singular, agreeing with the collective singular “Judah” earlier in the verse. English style requires a plural pronoun here, however.

⁴ tn Heb “Sisera.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Or “summoned.”

⁵ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”

⁶ sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

⁷ tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).

⁶ tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”

⁷ tn Heb “that were in their hands.”

⁷ tn Heb “by not summoning us.”

⁸ tn Heb “Look! He and the people who are with him will come out to you, and you will do to him what your hand finds [to do].”

⁹ tn Most interpret this as a reference to Samson, but this seems premature, since v. 25 suggests he was not yet standing before them. Consequently some prefer to see this statement as displaced and move it to v. 25 (see C. F. Burney, Judges, 387). It seems more likely that the pronoun refers to an image of Dagon.

¹⁰ tn Heb “multiplied our dead.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

¹² tn Traditionally, “judged.”

¹¹ tn Heb “his people.”

¹² tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

¹³ tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

¹⁴ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

¹⁵ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”