Judges 20:12

20:12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe¹ of Benjamin, saying, “How could such a wicked thing take place?²

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders³ of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered⁴ four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 18:1

The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance

18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place⁵ to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.⁶

Judges 20:10

20:10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army.⁷ When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”⁸

Judges 21:5

21:5 The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed.⁹

¹tc The MT reads the plural, but surely the singular (which is supported by the LXX and Vulgate) is preferable here.

²tn Heb “What is this wicked thing which happened among you?”

³tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.

⁴tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁵tn Heb “an inheritance.”

⁶tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”

⁷tn Or “people.”

⁸tn Heb “to do at their arrival in Geba of Benjamin according to all the disgraceful [thing] which he [collective = “Benjamin”] did in Israel.” Here “Geba” must be an error for “Gibeah.”

⁹tn Heb “A great oath there was concerning the one who did not go up before the Lord at Mizpah, saying, ‘He must surely be put to death.’”