Judges 9:42

9:42 The next day the Shechemites ¹  came out to the field. When Abimelech heard about it, ² 

Judges 5:18

5:18 The men of Zebulun were not concerned about their lives; ³ 

Naphtali charged on to the battlefields. ⁴ 

Judges 9:32

9:32 Now, come up ⁵  at night with your men ⁶  and set an ambush in the field outside the city. ⁷ 

Judges 1:14

1:14 One time Acsah ⁸  came and charmed her father ⁹  so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Judges 5:4

5:4 O Lord, when you departed ¹⁰  from Seir,

when you marched from Edom’s plains,

the earth shook, the heavens poured down,

the clouds poured down rain. ¹¹ 

Judges 9:27

9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, ¹²  squeezed out the juice, ¹³  and celebrated. They came to the temple ¹⁴  of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 9:43-44

9:43 he took his men ¹⁵  and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, ¹⁶  he attacked and struck them down. ¹⁷  9:44 Abimelech and his units ¹⁸  attacked and blocked ¹⁹  the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

Judges 13:9

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ²⁰  God’s angelic messenger visited ²¹  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

Judges 20:6

20:6 I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces ²²  throughout the territory occupied by Israel, ²³  because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity ²⁴  in Israel.

Judges 19:16

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ²⁵  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ²⁶ 

Judges 20:31

20:31 The Benjaminites attacked ²⁷  the army, leaving the city unguarded. ²⁸  They began to strike down their enemy ²⁹  just as they had done before. On the main roads (one leads to Bethel, ³⁰  the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down ³¹  about thirty Israelites.

¹ tn Heb “the people”; the referent (the Shechemites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “And they told Abimelech.”

³ tn Heb “Zebulun was a people which despised its life even unto death.”

⁴ tn Heb “Naphtali was on the heights of the field.”

⁵ tn Heb “arise.”

⁶ tn Heb “you and the people who are with you.”

⁷ tn The words “outside the city” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁷ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “him.” The pronoun could refer to Othniel, in which case one would translate, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 15. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18 // Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. The translation takes Caleb to be the referent, specified as “her father.”

⁹ tn Or “went out.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “water.”

¹¹ tn Heb “vineyards.”

¹² 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.

¹³ tn Heb “house.”

¹³ tn Heb “his people.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

¹⁵ tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “stood [at].”

¹⁷ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “came to.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “her”; the referent is more naturally stated in English as “the pieces.”

²⁰ tn Heb “throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel.”

²¹ tn Heb “a wicked and disgraceful [thing].”

²¹ tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

²² tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”

²³ tn Heb “went out to meet.”

²⁴ tn Heb “and they were drawn away from the city.”

²⁵ tn Heb “from the army wounded ones.”

²⁶ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

²⁷ tn The words “they struck down” are supplied in the translation for clarification.