Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them.¹ Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s² concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.³ But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Judges 2:3

2:3 At that time I also warned you,⁴ ‘If you disobey,⁵ I will not drive out the Canaanites⁶ before you. They will ensnare you⁷ and their gods will lure you away.’”⁸

Judges 6:9

6:9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power⁹ and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

Judges 8:19-20

8:19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear,¹⁰ as surely as the Lord is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.” 8:20 He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on!¹¹ Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword,¹² because he was still young.

Judges 8:34

8:34 The Israelites did not remain true¹³ to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night¹⁴ in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night.¹⁵

Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors¹⁶ who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped¹⁷ them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 2:14

2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel¹⁸ and handed them over to robbers who plundered them.¹⁹ He turned them over to²⁰ their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks.²¹

Judges 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother²² who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.²³

Judges 11:9

11:9 Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “All right!²⁴ If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me,²⁵ I will be your leader.”²⁶

Judges 18:27

18:27 Now the Danites²⁷ took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.²⁸

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors²⁹ against Jabesh Gilead.³⁰ They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords³¹ the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male.³² They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21:22

21:22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us,³³ we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be,³⁴ for we could not get each one a wife through battle.³⁵ Don’t worry about breaking your oath!³⁶ You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”³⁷

Judges 7:4

7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men.³⁸ Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more.³⁹ When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go;⁴⁰ when I say,⁴¹ ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.”⁴²

¹tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

²tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

³tn Heb “And I also said.” The use of the perfect tense here suggests that the messenger is recalling an earlier statement (see Josh 23:12-13). However, some translate, “And I also say,” understanding the following words as an announcement of judgment upon those gathered at Bokim.

⁴tn The words “If you disobey” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See Josh 23:12-13.

⁵tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Canaanites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶tn The meaning of the Hebrew word צִדִּים (tsiddim) is uncertain in this context. It may be related to an Akkadian cognate meaning “snare.” If so, a more literal translation would be “they will become snares to you.” Normally the term in question means “sides,” but this makes no sense here. On the basis of Num 33:55 some suggest the word for “thorns” has been accidentally omitted. If this word is added, the text would read, “they will become [thorns] in your sides” (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

⁷tn Heb “their gods will become a snare to you.”

⁴tn Heb “hand” (also a second time later in this verse).

⁵tn The words “I swear” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶tn Or “Arise!”

⁷tn Heb “did not draw his sword for he was afraid.”

⁷tn Heb “remember.”

⁸tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

⁹tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

⁹tn Or “fathers.”

¹⁰tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

¹⁰tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

¹¹tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

¹²tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

¹³tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

¹¹tn Heb “their brother.”

¹²tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

¹²tn “All right” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹³tn Heb “places them before me.”

¹⁴tn Some translate the final statement as a question, “will I really be your leader?” An affirmative sentence is preferable. Jephthah is repeating the terms of the agreement in an official manner. In v. 10 the leaders legally agree to these terms.

¹³tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.

¹⁴tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

¹⁵tn Heb “there.”

¹⁶tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”

¹⁵tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”

¹⁶tc The (original) LXX and Vulgate read “to you.”

¹⁷tn The words “and let them be” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁸tn Heb “for we did not take each his wife in battle.”

¹⁹tn This sentence is not in the Hebrew text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the logic of the statement.

²⁰tc Heb “You did not give to them, now you are guilty.” The MT as it stands makes little sense. It is preferable to emend לֹא (lo’, “not”) to לוּא (lu’, “if”). This particle introduces a purely hypothetical condition, “If you had given to them [but you didn’t].” See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 453-54.

¹⁷tn Heb “too many people.”

¹⁸tn Heb “test them for you there.”

¹⁹tn Heb “he should go with you.”

²⁰tn Heb also has “to you.”

²¹tn Heb “he should not go.”