Judges 7:12

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 7:18

7:18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

Judges 11:34

11:34 When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ²  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ³  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

Judges 15:2

15:2 Her father said, “I really thought ⁴  you absolutely despised ⁵  her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!” ⁶ 

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ⁷  went down and brought him back. ⁸  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ⁹  Israel for twenty years.

Judges 17:8

17:8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”

² tn Heb “Look! His daughter was coming out.”

³ tn Heb “with tambourines and dancing.”

³ tn Heb “saying, I said.” The first person form of אָמַר (’amar, “to say”) sometimes indicates self-reflection. The girl’s father uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis.

⁴ tn Heb “hating, you hated.” Once again the girl’s father uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis.

⁵ tn Heb “Is her younger sister not better than her? Let her [i.e., the younger sister] be yours instead of her [i.e., Samson’s ‘bride’]).”

⁴ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

⁵ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

⁶ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

⁵ tn Heb “He came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, making his way.”