Judges 4:3

4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera¹ had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,² and he cruelly³ oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Judges 4:13

4:13 he⁴ ordered⁵ all his chariotry – nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels – and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.

Judges 7:7-8

7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army⁶ and I will hand Midian over to you.⁷ The rest of the men should go home.”⁸ 7:8 The men⁹ who were chosen¹⁰ took supplies¹¹ and their trumpets. Gideon¹² sent all the men of Israel back to their homes;¹³ he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites¹⁴ were camped down below¹⁵ in the valley.

Judges 7:19

7:19 Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp¹⁶ at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.¹⁷

Judges 7:22

7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords¹⁸ throughout¹⁹ the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went²⁰ to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

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.²¹

Judges 8:26

8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels.²² This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry,²³ purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.²⁴

Judges 11:26

11:26 Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?

Judges 15:4

15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals²⁵ and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.²⁶

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate²⁷ him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 17:2-3

17:2 He said to his mother, “You know²⁸ the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen²⁹ from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole³⁰ it, but now I am giving it back to you.”³¹ His mother said, “May the Lord reward³² you, my son!” 17:3 When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, “I solemnly dedicate³³ this silver to the Lord. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.”³⁴

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole³⁵ the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.³⁶

Judges 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.³⁷

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.³⁸

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male.³⁹ They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

¹tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

³tn Heb “with strength.”

⁴tn Heb “Sisera.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵tn Or “summoned.”

⁷tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.

⁸tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.

⁹tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”

¹⁰tn Heb “The people.”

¹¹tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹²tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

¹³tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴tn Heb “tents.”

¹⁵tn Heb “Midian.”

¹⁶tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

¹³tn Heb “Gideon went, along with the hundred men who were with him, to the edge of the camp.”

¹⁴tn Heb “that were in their hands.”

¹⁶tn Heb “the Lord set the sword of each one against his friend.”

¹⁷tc MT has “and throughout the camp,” but the conjunction (“and”) is due to dittography and should be dropped. Compare the ancient versions, which lack the conjunction here.

¹⁸tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁹tn 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.”

²²sn Seventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.

²³tn Or “pendants.”

²⁴tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”

²⁵tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

²⁶tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

²⁸tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

³¹tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³²tn Heb “taken.”

³³tn Heb “took.”

³⁴tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.

³⁵tn Traditionally, “bless.”

³⁴tn Heb “dedicating, I dedicate.” In this case the emphatic infinitive absolute lends a mood of solemnity to the statement.

³⁵tn Heb “to the LORD from my hand for my son to make a carved image and cast metal image.” She cannot mean that she is now taking the money from her hand and giving it back to her son so he can make an image. Verses 4-6 indicate she took back the money and used a portion of it to hire a silversmith to make an idol for her son to use. The phrase “a carved image and cast metal image” is best taken as referring to two idols (see 18:17-18), even though the verb at the end of v. 4, וַיְהִי (vayÿhi, “and it was [in the house of Micah]”), is singular.

³⁷tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

³⁸tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

⁴⁰tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

⁴³tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”

⁴⁶tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”