Judges 4:14

4:14 Deborah said to Barak, “Spring into action,¹ for this is the day the Lord is handing Sisera over to you!² Has the Lord not taken the lead?”³ Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

Judges 9:18

9:18 But you have attacked⁴ my father’s family⁵ today. You murdered his seventy legitimate⁶ sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative.⁷

Judges 9:45

9:45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled⁸ the city and spread salt over it.⁹

Judges 10:4

10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair¹⁰ – they are in the land of Gilead.¹¹

Judges 11:27

11:27 I have not done you wrong,¹² but you are doing wrong¹³ by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help,¹⁴ I risked my life¹⁵ and advanced against¹⁶ the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up¹⁷ to fight with me today?”

Judges 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin¹⁸ at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength¹⁹ was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring²⁰ En Hakkore.²¹ It remains in Lehi to this very day.

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 place²² to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.²³

Judges 18:12

18:12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan.²⁴ It is west²⁵ of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight²⁶ said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since²⁷ the Israelites left the land of Egypt!²⁸ Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

¹tn Heb “Arise!”

²tn The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the Lord speaks of it as a “done deal.”

³tn Heb “Has the Lord not gone out before you?”

⁴tn Heb “have risen up against.”

⁵tn Heb “house.”

⁶tn The word “legitimate” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷tn Heb “your brother.”

⁷tn Or “destroyed.”

⁸tn Heb “sowed it with salt.”

¹⁰sn The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.

¹¹tn Heb “they call them Havvoth Jair to this day – which are in the land of Gilead.”

¹³tn Or “sinned against you.”

¹⁴tn Or “evil.”

¹⁶tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

¹⁷tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

¹⁸tn Heb “crossed over to.”

¹⁹tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁹tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

²⁰tn Heb “spirit.”

²¹tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²²sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”

²²tn Heb “an inheritance.”

²³tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”

²⁵tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”

²⁶tn Heb “behind.”

²⁸tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁹tn Heb “from the day.”

³⁰tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”