Judges 4:16

4:16 Now Barak chased the chariots and the army all the way to Harosheth Haggoyim. Sisera’s whole army died ¹  by the edge of the sword; not even one survived! ² 

Judges 4:22

4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent, ³  and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead ⁴  with the tent peg in his temple.

Judges 8:10

8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. ⁵ 

Judges 12:6

12:6 then they said to him, “Say ‘Shibboleth!’” ⁶  If he said, “Sibboleth” (and could not pronounce the word ⁷  correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead.

Judges 15:18

15:18 He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant ⁸  this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” ⁹ 

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ¹⁰  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ¹¹ 

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 place ¹²  to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “fell.”

² tn Heb “was left.”

³ tn Heb “he went to her.”

⁴ tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

⁵ tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”

⁷ sn The inability of the Ephraimites to pronounce the word shibboleth the way the Gileadites did served as an identifying test. It illustrates that during this period there were differences in pronunciation between the tribes. The Hebrew word shibboleth itself means “stream” or “flood,” and was apparently chosen simply as a test case without regard to its meaning.

⁸ tn Heb “and could not prepare to speak.” The precise meaning of יָכִין (yakhin) is unclear. Some understand it to mean “was not careful [to say it correctly]”; others emend to יָכֹל (yakhol, “was not able [to say it correctly]”) or יָבִין (yavin, “did not understand [that he should say it correctly]”), which is read by a few Hebrew mss.

⁹ tn Heb “you have placed into the hand of your servant.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the uncircumcised,” which in context refers to the Philistines.

¹¹ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

¹² tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”

¹³ tn Heb “an inheritance.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”