Judges 8:30

8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. ¹ 

Judges 9:40

9:40 Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ²  ran from him. Many Shechemites ³  fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

Judges 7:2

7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. ⁴  Israel might brag, ⁵  ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’ ⁶ 

Judges 16:30

16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard ⁷  and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life. ⁸ 

Judges 7:4

7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. ⁹  Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. ¹⁰  When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; ¹¹  when I say, ¹²  ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gaal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn The word “Shechemites” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied for clarification.

³ tn Heb “the people who are with you are too numerous for me to give Midian into their hand.”

⁴ tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”

⁵ tn Heb “my hand has delivered me.”

⁴ tn Heb “he stretched out with strength.”

⁵ tn Heb “And the ones whom he killed in his death were many more than he killed in his life.”

⁵ tn Heb “too many people.”

⁶ tn Heb “test them for you there.”

⁷ tn Heb “he should go with you.”

⁸ tn Heb also has “to you.”

⁹ tn Heb “he should not go.”