Judges 6:33

Gideon Summons an Army and Seeks Confirmation

6:33 All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east ¹  assembled. They crossed the Jordan River ²  and camped in the Jezreel Valley.

Judges 7:21

7:21 They stood in order ³  all around the camp. The whole army ran away; they shouted as they scrambled away. ⁴ 

Judges 7:23

7:23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites. ⁵ 

Judges 9:14

9:14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ ⁶ 

Judges 9:34

9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up ⁷  at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into ⁸  four units.

Judges 9:46

9:46 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem ⁹  heard the news, they went to the stronghold ¹⁰  of the temple of El-Berith. ¹¹ 

Judges 11:22

11:22 They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west. ¹² 

Judges 13:4

13:4 Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ¹³ 

Judges 13:13

13:13 The Lord’s messenger told ¹⁴  Manoah, “Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her. ¹⁵ 

Judges 16:16

16:16 She nagged him ¹⁶  every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it. ¹⁷ 

Judges 20:7

20:7 All you Israelites, ¹⁸  make a decision here!” ¹⁹ 

Judges 20:11

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

Judges 20:44

20:44 Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east.”

² tn The words “the Jordan River” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Heb “each in his place.”

⁴ tn Or “fled.”

⁵ tn Heb “Midian.”

⁷ tn Or “and rule over us!”

⁹ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹¹ sn Perhaps the Tower of Shechem was a nearby town, distinct from Shechem proper, or a tower within the city.

¹² tn Apparently this rare word refers here to the most inaccessible area of the temple, perhaps the inner sanctuary or an underground chamber. It appears only here and in 1 Sam 13:6, where it is paired with “cisterns” and refers to subterranean or cave-like hiding places.

¹³ sn The name El-Berith means “God of the Covenant.” It is probably a reference to the Canaanite high god El.

¹³ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the desert to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

¹⁵ tn Heb “eat anything unclean.” Certain foods were regarded as ritually “unclean” (see Lev 11). Eating such food made one ritually “contaminated.”

¹⁷ tn Or “said to.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “To everything I said to the woman she should pay attention.” The Hebrew word order emphasizes “to everything,” probably because Manoah’s wife did not tell her husband everything the angel had said to her (cf. vv. 3-5 with v. 7). If she had, Manoah probably would not have been so confused about the child’s mission.

¹⁹ tn Heb “forced him with her words.”

²⁰ tn Heb “and his spirit was short [i.e., impatient] to the point of death.”

²¹ tn Heb “Look, all of you sons of Israel.”

²² tn Heb “give for yourselves a word and advice here.”

²³ tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”