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 7:22

7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords¹⁶ throughout¹⁷ the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went¹⁸ to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 8:26

8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels.¹⁹ This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry,²⁰ purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.²¹

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 jackals²² and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.²³

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole²⁴ 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.²⁵

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.²⁶

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.²⁷ 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 “the Lord set the sword of each one against his friend.”

¹⁴tc 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.

¹⁵tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁶sn Seventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.

¹⁷tn Or “pendants.”

¹⁸tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”

¹⁹tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

²⁰tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

²²tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

²³tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

²⁵tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

²⁸tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”