Judges 6:16

6:16 The Lord said to him, “Ah, but ¹  I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army.” ² 

Judges 9:53

9:53 a woman threw an upper millstone ³  down on his ⁴  head and shattered his skull.

Judges 13:2

13:2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. ⁵ 

Judges 17:11

17:11 So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah. ⁶ 

Judges 19:13

19:13 He said to his servant, ⁷  “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns ⁸  and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

Judges 20:11

20:11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies. ⁹ 

Judges 21:6

21:6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to ¹⁰  their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire ¹¹  tribe from Israel!

¹ tn Or “certainly.”

² tn Heb “You will strike down Midian as one man.” The idiom “as one man” emphasizes the collective unity of a group (see Judg 20:8, 11). Here it may carry the force, “as if they were just one man.”

³ sn A hand mill consisted of an upper stone and larger lower stone. One would turn the upper stone with a handle to grind the grain, which was placed between the stones. An upper millstone, which was typically about two inches thick and a foot or so in diameter, probably weighed 25-30 pounds (11.4-13.6 kg). See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 268; C. F. Burney, Judges, 288.

⁴ tn Heb “Abimelech’s.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun “his” in the translation in keeping with conventions of English narrative style.

⁵ tn Heb “and had not given birth.”

⁷ tn Heb “the young man became like one of his sons.”

⁹ tn Or “young man.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”

¹¹ tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”

¹³ tn Or “felt sorry for.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “cut off one.”