Judges 1:11

1:11 From there they attacked the people of Debir. ¹  (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

Judges 2:6

The End of an Era

2:6 When Joshua dismissed ²  the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, ³  intending to take possession of the land.

Judges 5:10

5:10 You who ride on light-colored female donkeys,

who sit on saddle blankets, ⁴ 

you who walk on the road, pay attention!

Judges 9:14

9:14 “So all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘You come and be our king!’ ⁵ 

Judges 9:21

9:21 Then Jotham ran away ⁶  to Beer and lived there to escape from ⁷  Abimelech his half-brother. ⁸ 

Judges 9:55

9:55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home. ⁹ 

Judges 10:14

10:14 Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!” ¹⁰ 

Judges 11:6

11:6 They said, ¹¹  “Come, be our commander, so we can fight with the Ammonites.”

Judges 11:16

11:16 When they left ¹²  Egypt, Israel traveled ¹³  through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.

Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ¹⁴  Israelite women commemorate ¹⁵  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ¹⁶ 

Judges 16:1

Samson’s Downfall

16:1 Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her. ¹⁷ 

Judges 18:5

18:5 They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, ¹⁸  so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.” ¹⁹ 

Judges 18:21

18:21 They turned and went on their way, but they walked behind the children, the cattle, and their possessions. ²⁰ 

Judges 19:7

19:7 When the man got ready to leave, ²¹  his father-in-law convinced him to stay another night. ²² 

Judges 19:13-14

19:13 He said to his servant, ²³  “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns ²⁴  and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.” 19:14 So they traveled on, ²⁵  and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin. ²⁶ 

[1:11]  ¹ tn Heb “they went from there against the inhabitants of Debir.” The LXX reads the verb as “they went up,” which suggests that the Hebrew text translated by the LXX read וַיַּעַל (vayya’al) rather than the MT’s וַיֵּלֶךְ (vayyelekh). It is possible that this is the text to be preferred in v. 11. Cf. Josh 15:15.

[2:6]  ² tn Or “sent away.”

[2:6]  ³ tn Heb “the Israelites went each to his inheritance.”

[5:10]  ³ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִדִּין (middin, “saddle blankets”) in this context is uncertain.

[9:14]  ⁴ tn Or “and rule over us!”

[9:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “from before.”

[9:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “his brother.”

[9:55]  ⁶ tn Heb “each to his own place.”

[10:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “in your time of trouble.”

[11:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “to Jephthah.”

[11:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “For when they went up from.”

[11:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “went.”

[11:40]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

[11:40]  ¹¹ tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

[11:40]  ¹² 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.

[16:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he went in to her.” The idiom בּוֹא אֶל (bo’ ’el, “to go to”) often has sexual connotations.

[18:5]  ¹² tn Heb “Ask God.”

[18:5]  ¹³ tn Heb “so we can know if our way on which we are going will be successful.”

[18:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “They turned and went and put the children, the cattle, and the possessions in front of them.”

[19:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and the man arose to go.”

[19:7]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “his father-in-law persuaded him and he again spent the night there.”

[19:13]  ¹⁵ tn Or “young man.”

[19:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”

[19:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and they passed by and went.”

[19:14]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”