Judges 1:20

1:20 Caleb received ¹  Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

Judges 5:11

5:11 Hear ²  the sound of those who divide the sheep ³  among the watering places;

there they tell of ⁴  the Lord’s victorious deeds,

the victorious deeds of his warriors ⁵  in Israel.

Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

Judges 5:27

5:27 Between her feet he collapsed,

he fell limp ⁶  and was lifeless; ⁷ 

between her feet he collapsed and fell limp,

in the spot where he collapsed,

there he fell limp – violently murdered! ⁸ 

Judges 6:24

6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” ⁹  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8:8

8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. ¹⁰  The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had. ¹¹ 

Judges 8:27

8:27 Gideon used all this to make ¹²  an ephod, ¹³  which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites ¹⁴  prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it ¹⁵  there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Judges 16:27

16:27 Now the temple ¹⁶  was filled with men and women, and all the rulers of the Philistines were there. There were three thousand men and women on the roof watching Samson entertain.

Judges 19:2

19:2 However, she ¹⁷  got angry at him ¹⁸  and went home ¹⁹  to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

Judges 19:4

19:4 His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there.

Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ²⁰  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ²¹ 

Judges 19:26

19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master ²²  was staying until it became light. ²³ 

Judges 20:22

20:22 The Israelite army ²⁴  took heart ²⁵  and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ²⁶  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ²⁷ 

[1:20]  ¹ tn Heb “they gave to Caleb.”

[5:11]  ² tn The word “Hear” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[5:11]  ³ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Some translate “those who distribute the water” (HALOT 344 s.v. חצץ pi). For other options see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 246-47.

[5:11]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps “repeat.”

[5:11]  ⁵ tn See the note on the term “warriors” in v. 7.

[5:27]  ³ tn Heb “he fell.” The same Hebrew expression occurs two more times in this verse.

[5:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he lay.

[5:27]  ⁵ tn Or “dead, murdered.”

[6:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

[8:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”

[8:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”

[8:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “made it into.”

[8:27]  ⁷ sn In Exod 28:4-6 and several other texts an ephod is described as a priestly or cultic garment. In some cases an ephod is used to obtain a divine oracle (1 Sam 23:9; 30:7). Here the ephod is made of gold and is described as being quite heavy (70-75 lbs?). Some identify it as an idol, but it was more likely a cultic object fashioned in the form of a garment which was used for oracular purposes. For discussion of the ephod in the OT, see C. F. Burney, Judges, 236-43, and R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 349-52.

[8:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “Israel” (a collective singular).

[8:27]  ⁹ tn The words “by worshiping it” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[16:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “house.”

[19:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “and his concubine.” The pronoun (“she”) has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[19:2]  ⁹ 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).

[19:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “went from him.”

[19:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

[19:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

[19:26]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[19:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

[20:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The people, the men of Israel.”

[20:22]  ¹² tn Or “encouraged one another.”

[21:2]  ¹² map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[21:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.