Judges 20:41
20:41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked
1 because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.
2
Judges 21:1
600 Brides for 600 Brothers
21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”
Judges 20:17
20:17 The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.
3
Judges 20:48
20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns
4 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities,
5 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.
6
1 tn Or “were terrified.”
2 tn Heb “disaster touched against them.”
3 tn Heb “a man of war.”
5 tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”
6 tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).
7 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”