Judges 6:23

6:23 The Lord said to him, “You are safe! ¹  Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

Judges 9:21

9:21 Then Jotham ran away ²  to Beer and lived there to escape from ³  Abimelech his half-brother. ⁴ 

Judges 7:3

7:3 Now, announce to the men, ⁵  ‘Whoever is shaking with fear ⁶  may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.’” ⁷  Twenty-two thousand men ⁸  went home; ⁹  ten thousand remained.

Judges 7:10

7:10 But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with Purah your servant

Judges 4:18

4:18 Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him, “Stop and rest, ¹⁰  my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don’t be afraid.” So Sisera ¹¹  stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him.

Judges 6:10

6:10 I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship ¹²  the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’” ¹³ 

Judges 8:20

8:20 He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on! ¹⁴  Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, ¹⁵  because he was still young.

Judges 6:27

6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants ¹⁶  and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family ¹⁷  and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. ¹⁸ 

Judges 20:41

20:41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked ¹⁹  because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep. ²⁰ 

Judges 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ²¹  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ²²  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Judges 6:22

6:22 When Gideon realized ²³  that it was the Lord’s messenger, he ²⁴  said, “Oh no! ²⁵  Master, Lord! ²⁶  I have seen the Lord’s messenger face to face!”

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. ²⁷ 

Judges 4:15

4:15 The Lord routed ²⁸  Sisera, all his chariotry, and all his army with the edge of the sword. ²⁹  Sisera jumped out of ³⁰  his chariot and ran away on foot.

¹ tn Heb “Peace to you.” For a similar use of this idiom to introduce a reassuring word, see Gen 43:23.

² tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”

³ tn Heb “from before.”

⁴ tn Heb “his brother.”

³ tn Heb “call into the ears of the people.”

⁴ tn Heb “afraid and shaking.”

⁵ tc Many interpreters reject the MT reading “and leave Mount Gilead” for geographical reasons. A possible alternative, involving rather radical emendation of the Hebrew text, would be, “So Gideon tested them” (i.e., thinned the ranks in this manner).

⁶ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because warriors are in view, and in ancient Israelite culture these would be only males. (This is also the case in vv. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.)

⁷ tn Or “turned around, back.”

⁴ tn Heb “Turn aside” (also a second time later in this verse).

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “Do not fear.”

⁶ tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

⁶ tn Or “Arise!”

⁷ tn Heb “did not draw his sword for he was afraid.”

⁷ tn Heb “men from among his servants.”

⁸ tn Heb “house.”

⁹ tn Heb “so he did it at night.”

⁸ tn Or “were terrified.”

⁹ tn Heb “disaster touched against them.”

⁹ tn Heb “The man of God.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “saw.”

¹¹ tn Heb “Gideon.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹² tn Or “Ah!”

¹³ tn The Hebrew text reads אֲדֹנַי יְהוִה (’adonay yÿhvih, “Lord [the same title used in v. 15], Lord”).

¹¹ tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”

¹² tn Or “caused to panic.”

¹³ tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “before Barak.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁴ tn Heb “got down from.”