Judges 7:22

7:22 When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords¹ throughout² the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went³ to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders⁴ of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered⁵ four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.⁶

Judges 20:17

20:17 The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.⁷

Judges 20:25

20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.⁸

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.⁹

Judges 20:46

20:46 That day twenty-five thousand¹⁰ sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.¹¹

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders¹² of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered¹³ four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 3:26

3:26 Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.

Judges 3:2

3:2 He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war.¹⁴

Judges 13:17

13:17 Manoah said to the Lord’s messenger, “Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true.”¹⁵

Judges 1:6

1:6 When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Judges 1:8

1:8 The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

Isaiah 37:36

37:36 The Lord’s messenger¹⁶ went out and killed 185,000 troops¹⁷ in the Assyrian camp. When they¹⁸ got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!¹⁹

¹tn Heb “the Lord set the sword of each one against his friend.”

²tc MT has “and throughout the camp,” but the conjunction (“and”) is due to dittography and should be dropped. Compare the ancient versions, which lack the conjunction here.

³tn The words “they went” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.

⁵tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

¹⁰tn Heb “a man of war.”

¹³tn Heb “And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day, and they struck down among the sons of Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all of these were wielding the sword.”

¹⁶tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”

¹⁹sn The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44-46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 429) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44-47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.

²⁰tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.

²²tn Heb “the cornerstones”; or “the supports.” The word is used of leaders in only three other texts – 1 Sam 14:38; Isa 19:13; Zech 10:4.

²³tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

²⁵tn The Hebrew syntax of v. 2 is difficult. The Hebrew text reads literally, “only in order that the generations of the Israelites might know, to teach them war – only those who formerly did not know them.”

²⁸tn Heb “Who your name? For [when] your word comes [to pass], we will honor you.” Manoah apparently gets tongue-tied and uses the wrong pronoun (“who” instead of “what”). He starts to say, “Who are you?” But then he switches to “your name” as if he began the sentence with “what.” See R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 222.

³¹tn Traditionally, “the angel of the Lord” (so NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

³²tn The word “troops” is supplied in the translation for smoothness and clarity.

³³tn This refers to the Israelites and/or the rest of the Assyrian army.

³⁴tn Heb “look, all of them were dead bodies”; NLT “they found corpses everywhere.”