Judges 7:13

7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had.¹ The man² said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw³ a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.”⁴

Judges 11:21

11:21 The Lord God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took⁵ all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.

Judges 11:33

11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out!⁶ The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites.⁷

Judges 12:4

12:4 Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying,⁸ “You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim, living within Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s territory.”⁹

Judges 14:19

14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes¹⁰ and gave them¹¹ to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.¹²

Judges 18:27

18:27 Now the Danites¹³ took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.¹⁴

Judges 20:31

20:31 The Benjaminites attacked¹⁵ the army, leaving the city unguarded.¹⁶ They began to strike down their enemy¹⁷ just as they had done before. On the main roads (one leads to Bethel,¹⁸ the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down¹⁹ about thirty Israelites.

Judges 20:39

20:39 the Israelites counterattacked.²⁰ Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites;²¹ they struck down²² about thirty men. They said, “There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

Judges 20:45

20:45 The rest²³ turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites²⁴ caught²⁵ five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels²⁶ all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns²⁷ and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities,²⁸ the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.²⁹

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors³⁰ against Jabesh Gilead.³¹ They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords³² the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

¹tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

²tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

⁴tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

⁵tn That is, took as its own possession.

⁹tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

¹⁰tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

¹³tn Heb “because they said.”

¹⁴tc Heb “Refugees of Ephraim are you, O Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.” The LXX omits the entire second half of the verse (beginning with “because”). The words כִּי אָמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם (ki ’amru pÿlitey ’efrayim, “because they said, ‘Refugees of Ephraim’”) may have been accidentally copied from the next verse (cf. כִּי יֹאמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם, ki yo’mÿru pelitey ’efrayim) and the following words (“you, O Gilead…Manasseh”) then added in an attempt to make sense of the verse. See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 307-8, and C. F. Burney, Judges, 327. If the Hebrew text is retained, then the Ephraimites appear to be insulting the Gileadites by describing them as refugees who are squatting on Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s land. The present translation assumes that “Ephraim” is a genitive of location after “refugees.”

¹⁷tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”

¹⁸tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”

¹⁹tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”

²¹tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²²tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.

²⁵tn Heb “went out to meet.”

²⁶tn Heb “and they were drawn away from the city.”

²⁷tn Heb “from the army wounded ones.”

²⁸map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

²⁹tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁹tn Heb “turned in the battle.”

³⁰tn Heb “And Benjamin began to strike down wounded ones among the men of Israel.”

³¹tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³³tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁴tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³⁵tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.

³⁶tn Heb “stuck close after them.”

³⁷tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

³⁸tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

³⁹tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”

⁴¹tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

⁴²tn Heb “there.”

⁴³tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”