Judges 9:27

9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, ¹  squeezed out the juice, ²  and celebrated. They came to the temple ³  of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ⁴  his half-brothers ⁵  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ⁶ 

Judges 20:1

Civil War Breaks Out

20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba ⁷  and from the land of Gilead ⁸  left their homes ⁹  and assembled together ¹⁰  before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ¹¹ 

Judges 21:24

21:24 Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “vineyards.”

² tn Heb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-14.

³ tn Heb “house.”

⁴ tn Or “fled from.”

⁵ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁶ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

⁷ sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

⁸ sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

⁹ tn Heb “went out.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

¹³ tn Heb “his inheritance.”