Judges 5:11

5:11 Hear ¹  the sound of those who divide the sheep ²  among the watering places;

there they tell of ³  the Lord’s victorious deeds,

the victorious deeds of his warriors ⁴  in Israel.

Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

Judges 5:15

5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,

the men of Issachar ⁵  supported ⁶  Barak;

into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. ⁷ 

Among the clans of Reuben there was intense ⁸  heart searching. ⁹ 

Judges 9:6

9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar ¹⁰  in Shechem.

Judges 9:19

9:19 So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family ¹¹  today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness! ¹² 

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹³  of the land. A unit ¹⁴  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ¹⁵ 

Judges 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked, ¹⁶  the leaders ¹⁷  of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back ¹⁸  from the land of Tob.

Judges 11:20

11:20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He ¹⁹  assembled his whole army, ²⁰  camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Judges 11:25

11:25 Are you really better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he dare to quarrel with Israel? Did he dare to fight with them? ²¹ 

Judges 18:22

18:22 After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors ²²  gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders ²³  of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered ²⁴  four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 20:20

20:20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they ²⁵  arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

¹ tn The word “Hear” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

² tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Some translate “those who distribute the water” (HALOT 344 s.v. חצץ pi). For other options see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 246-47.

³ tn Or perhaps “repeat.”

⁴ tn See the note on the term “warriors” in v. 7.

⁵ tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁶ tn Or “was true to.”

⁷ tn Heb “at his feet.”

⁸ tn Heb “great was.”

⁹ tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16.

⁹ tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).

¹³ tn Heb “house.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “then rejoice in Abimelech, and may he also rejoice in you.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

¹⁸ tn Heb “head.”

¹⁹ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

²¹ tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

²² tn Or “elders.”

²³ tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

²⁵ tn Heb “Sihon.” The proper name (“Sihon”) has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) because of English style; a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant in English.

²⁶ tn Heb “all his people” (also in the following verse).

²⁹ tn The Hebrew grammatical constructions of all three rhetorical questions indicate emphasis, which “really” and “dare to” are intended to express in the translation.

³³ tn Heb “the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house.”

³⁷ tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.

³⁸ tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴¹ tn Heb “the men of Israel.” The noun phrase has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.