Judges 2:2

2:2 but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ ¹  But you have disobeyed me. ²  Why would you do such a thing? ³ 

Judges 5:31

5:31 May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!

But may those who love you shine

like the rising sun at its brightest!” ⁴ 

And the land had rest for forty years.

Judges 6:4

6:4 They invaded the land ⁵  and devoured ⁶  its crops ⁷  all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, ⁸  and they took away ⁹  the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

Judges 6:40

6:40 That night God did as he asked. ¹⁰  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Judges 8:28

Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. ¹¹  The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time. ¹² 

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹³  of the land. A unit ¹⁴  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “their altars.”

² tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

³ tn Heb “What is this you have done?”

⁴ tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

⁷ tn Heb “They encamped against them.”

⁸ tn Heb “destroyed.”

⁹ tn Heb “the crops of the land.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”

¹¹ tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁰ tn Heb “God did so that night.”

¹³ tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

¹⁷ tn Heb “head.”

¹⁸ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.