Judges 8:2

8:2 He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes ¹  are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest! ² 

Judges 7:17

7:17 He said to them, “Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! ³  I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

Judges 8:8

8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. ⁴  The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had. ⁵ 

Judges 9:1

Abimelech Murders His Brothers

9:1 Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. ⁶  He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, ⁷ 

Judges 9:57

9:57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell ⁸  on them.

Judges 12:2

12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. ⁹  I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. ¹⁰ 

Judges 18:18

18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ¹¹  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 19:23

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

Judges 19:25

19:25 The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite ¹²  grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. ¹³  They raped ¹⁴  her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

Judges 21:22

21:22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, ¹⁵  we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, ¹⁶  for we could not get each one a wife through battle. ¹⁷  Don’t worry about breaking your oath! ¹⁸  You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’” ¹⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “gleanings.”

² sn Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest. Gideon employs an agricultural metaphor. He argues that Ephraim’s mopping up operations, though seemingly like the inferior grapes which are missed initially by the harvesters or left for the poor, are actually more noteworthy than the military efforts of Gideon’s family.

³ tn Or “look.”

⁵ tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”

⁶ tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”

⁷ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁸ tn Heb “to all the extended family of the house of the father of his mother.”

⁹ tn Heb “came.”

¹¹ tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”

¹² tn Heb “hand.”

¹³ tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “knew,” in the sexual sense.

¹⁷ tc The (original) LXX and Vulgate read “to you.”

¹⁸ tn The words “and let them be” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹⁹ tn Heb “for we did not take each his wife in battle.”

²⁰ tn This sentence is not in the Hebrew text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the logic of the statement.

²¹ tc Heb “You did not give to them, now you are guilty.” The MT as it stands makes little sense. It is preferable to emend לֹא (lo’, “not”) to לוּא (lu’, “if”). This particle introduces a purely hypothetical condition, “If you had given to them [but you didn’t].” See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 453-54.