Judges 1:21

1:21 The men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. ¹  The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day. ² 

Judges 1:30

1:30 The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol. ³  The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor.

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ⁴  his half-brothers ⁵  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ⁶ 

Judges 14:8

14:8 Some time later, when he went back to marry ⁷  her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw ⁸  a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey.

Judges 17:4

17:4 When he gave the silver back to his mother, she ⁹  took two hundred pieces of silver ¹⁰  to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house. ¹¹ 

Judges 18:26

18:26 The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized ¹²  they were too strong to resist, ¹³  he turned around and went home.

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 ¹⁴  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ¹⁵ 

Judges 21:14

21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ¹⁶  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ¹⁷ 

[1:21]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[1:21]  ² sn The statement to this very day reflects the perspective of the author, who must have written prior to David’s conquest of the Jebusites (see 2 Sam 5:6-7).

[1:30]  ³ tn Heb “the people living in Kitron and the people living in Nahalol.”

[11:3]  ⁵ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[14:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “get.”

[14:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “and look, a swarm of bees…”

[17:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “his mother.” The pronoun (“she”) has been substituted for the noun (“mother”) in the translation because of English style.

[17:4]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text has “and gave it.” The referent (the pieces of silver) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it was in Micah’s house.”

[18:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “saw.”

[18:26]  ¹² tn Heb “they were stronger than he.”

[19:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

[19:15]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

[21:14]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”