Judges 3:13

3:13 Eglon formed alliances with ¹  the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

Judges 9:6

9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar ²  in Shechem.

Judges 11:20

11:20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He ³  assembled his whole army, ⁴  camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Judges 16:23

Samson’s Death and Burial

16:23 The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

Judges 18:25

18:25 The Danites said to him, “Don’t say another word to us, or some very angry men ⁵  will attack you, and you and your family will die.” ⁶ 

Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ⁷  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “and he gathered to him.”

² tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).

³ tn Heb “Sihon.” The proper name (“Sihon”) has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) because of English style; a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant in English.

⁴ tn Heb “all his people” (also in the following verse).

⁴ tn Heb “bitter in spirit.” This phrase is used in 2 Sam 17:8 of David and his warriors, who are compared to a bear robbed of her cubs.

⁵ tn Heb “and you will gather up your life and the life of your house.”

⁵ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”