Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified ¹  tower ²  in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ³  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ⁴  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ⁵  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ⁶  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ⁷ 

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ⁸  said to their kinsmen, ⁹  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ¹⁰  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ¹¹ 

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 20:13

20:13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings ¹⁵  in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” ¹⁶  But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

¹ tn Or “strong.”

² tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

³ tn Or “went.”

⁴ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

⁶ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

⁷ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.

⁵ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

⁷ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

⁸ tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”

¹¹ tn Heb “knew,” in the sexual sense.

¹¹ tn Heb “the men, sons of wickedness.”

¹² tn Heb “and burn away wickedness from Israel.”