Judges 3:9

3:9 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ¹  raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued ²  them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. ³ 

Judges 3:15

3:15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ⁴  raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. ⁵  The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment. ⁶ 

Judges 4:6

4:6 She summoned ⁷  Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

Judges 11:2

11:2 Gilead’s wife also gave ⁸  him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, ⁹  because you are another woman’s son.”

Judges 20:28

20:28 Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the Lord ¹⁰  in those days), “Should we ¹¹  once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, ¹²  or should we ¹³  quit?” The Lord said, “Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them ¹⁴  over to you.”

¹ tn Heb “the Lord.”

² tn Or “delivered.”

³ tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel is Caleb’s nephew).

⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.” This has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn The phrase, which refers to Ehud, literally reads “bound/restricted in the right hand,” apparently a Hebrew idiom for a left-handed person. See Judg 20:16, where 700 Benjaminites are described in this way. Perhaps the Benjaminites purposely trained several of their young men to be left-handed warriors by restricting the use of the right hand from an early age so the left hand would become dominant. Left-handed men would have a distinct military advantage, especially when attacking city gates. See B. Halpern, “The Assassination of Eglon: The First Locked-Room Murder Mystery,” BRev 4 (1988): 35.

⁶ tn Heb “The Israelites sent by his hand an offering to Eglon, king of Moab.”

⁷ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “bore.”

¹¹ tn Heb “in the house of our father.”

¹³ tn Heb “standing before him.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

¹⁵ tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).

¹⁶ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

¹⁷ tn Heb “him” (collective singular).