Judges 9:34

9:34 So Abimelech and all his men came up ¹  at night and set an ambush outside Shechem – they divided into ²  four units.

Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ³  Israelite women commemorate ⁴  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ⁵ 

Judges 20:47

20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

Judges 19:2

19:2 However, she ⁶  got angry at him ⁷  and went home ⁸  to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

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. ⁹ 

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ¹⁰  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Judges 20:2

20:2 The leaders ¹¹  of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered ¹²  four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

Judges 21:14

21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ¹³  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ¹⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him arose.”

² tn Heb “four heads.” The words “they divided into” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

³ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

⁴ tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Or “was unfaithful to him.” Many have understood the Hebrew verb וַתִּזְנֶה (vattizneh) as being from זָנָה (zanah, “to be a prostitute”), but it may be derived from a root meaning “to be angry; to hate” attested in Akkadian (see HALOT 275 s.v. II זנה).

⁷ tn Heb “went from him.”

⁷ tn Heb “a man of war.”

⁹ tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”

¹¹ tn 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.

¹² tn The words “which numbered” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

¹³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”