Judges 1:17

1:17 The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon ¹  and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. ²  So people now call the city Hormah. ³ 

Judges 1:26

1:26 He ⁴  moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.

Judges 6:24

6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” ⁵  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 6:32

6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, ⁶  because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

Judges 7:20

7:20 All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. ⁷  Then they yelled, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

Judges 16:19

16:19 She made him go to sleep on her lap ⁸  and then called a man in to shave off ⁹  the seven braids of his hair. ¹⁰  She made him vulnerable ¹¹  and his strength left him.

Judges 18:29

18:29 They named it Dan after their ancestor, who was one of Israel’s sons. ¹²  But the city’s name used to be Laish.

Judges 21:13

21:13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed. ¹³ 

[1:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Judah went with Simeon, his brother.”

[1:17]  ² tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Zephath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:17]  ³ sn The name Hormah (חָרְמָה, khormah) sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “wipe out” (חָרַם, kharam).

[1:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man.”

[6:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

[6:32]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”

[7:20]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in order to blow [them].” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[16:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “on her knees.” The expression is probably euphemistic for sexual intercourse. See HALOT 160-61 s.v. בֶּרֶךְ.

[16:19]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “she called for a man and she shaved off.” The point seems to be that Delilah acted through the instrumentality of the man. See J. A. Soggin, Judges (OTL), 254.

[16:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “head.” By metonymy the hair of his head is meant.

[16:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “She began to humiliate him.” Rather than referring to some specific insulting action on Delilah’s part after Samson’s hair was shaved off, this statement probably means that she, through the devious actions just described, began the process of Samson’s humiliation which culminates in the following verses.

[18:29]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who had been born to Israel.”

[21:13]  ²² tn Heb “And all the assembly sent and spoke to the sons of Benjamin who were at the cliff of Rimmon and they proclaimed to them peace.”