Judges 20:29

20:29 So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.

Judges 1:28

1:28 Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

Judges 8:31

8:31 His concubine, ¹  who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech. ² 

Judges 7:22

7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords ³  throughout ⁴  the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went ⁵  to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 15:4

15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals ⁶  and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. 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 

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ¹¹  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ¹²  took an ax ¹³  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ¹⁴  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ¹⁵ 

¹ sn A concubine was a slave woman in ancient Near Eastern societies who was the legal property of her master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with her master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).

² sn The name Abimelech means “my father is king.”

¹ tn Heb “the Lord set the sword of each one against his friend.”

² tc MT has “and throughout the camp,” but the conjunction (“and”) is due to dittography and should be dropped. Compare the ancient versions, which lack the conjunction here.

³ tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

² tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

¹ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

² tn Heb “with the bar.”

³ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

¹ tn Heb “his people.”

² tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

³ tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

⁴ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

⁵ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”