Judges 1:24

1:24 the spies spotted ¹  a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

Judges 3:27

3:27 When he reached Seirah, ²  he blew a trumpet ³  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead. ⁴ 

Judges 4:10

4:10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; ⁵  Deborah went up with him as well.

Judges 5:15

5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,

the men of Issachar ⁶  supported ⁷  Barak;

into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. ⁸ 

Among the clans of Reuben there was intense ⁹  heart searching. ¹⁰ 

Judges 6:17

6:17 Gideon ¹¹  said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, ¹²  then give me ¹³  a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

Judges 9:6

9:6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar ¹⁴  in Shechem.

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹⁵  of the land. A unit ¹⁶  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ¹⁷ 

Judges 9:44

9:44 Abimelech and his units ¹⁸  attacked and blocked ¹⁹  the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ²⁰  his half-brothers ²¹  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ²² 

Judges 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked, ²³  the leaders ²⁴  of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back ²⁵  from the land of Tob.

Judges 11:20

11:20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He ²⁶  assembled his whole army, ²⁷  camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Judges 11:25

11:25 Are you really better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he dare to quarrel with Israel? Did he dare to fight with them? ²⁸ 

Judges 13:9

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ²⁹  God’s angelic messenger visited ³⁰  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

Judges 18:22

18:22 After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors ³¹  gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

Judges 18:25

18:25 The Danites said to him, “Don’t say another word to us, or some very angry men ³²  will attack you, and you and your family will die.” ³³ 

Judges 20:20

20:20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they ³⁴  arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

[1:24]  ¹ tn Heb “saw.”

[3:27]  ² tn Heb “When he arrived.”

[3:27]  ³ tn That is, “mustered an army.”

[3:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “now he was before them.”

[4:10]  ³ tn Heb “went up at his feet.”

[5:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:15]  ⁵ tn Or “was true to.”

[5:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “at his feet.”

[5:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “great was.”

[5:15]  ⁸ tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16.

[6:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:17]  ⁶ tn Heb “If I have found favor in your eyes.”

[6:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “perform for me.”

[9:6]  ⁶ tc The translation assumes that the form in the Hebrew text (מֻצָּב, mutsav) is a corruption of an original מַצֵּבָה (matsevah, “pillar”). The reference is probably to a pagan object of worship (cf. LXX).

[9:37]  ⁷ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

[9:37]  ⁸ tn Heb “head.”

[9:37]  ⁹ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

[9:44]  ⁸ tn Or possibly, “the unit that was with him.”

[9:44]  ⁹ tn Heb “stood [at].”

[11:3]  ⁹ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “brothers.”

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

[11:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

[11:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “elders.”

[11:5]  ¹² tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

[11:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Sihon.” The proper name (“Sihon”) has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) because of English style; a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant in English.

[11:20]  ¹² tn Heb “all his people” (also in the following verse).

[11:25]  ¹² tn The Hebrew grammatical constructions of all three rhetorical questions indicate emphasis, which “really” and “dare to” are intended to express in the translation.

[13:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “came to.”

[18:22]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house.”

[18:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “bitter in spirit.” This phrase is used in 2 Sam 17:8 of David and his warriors, who are compared to a bear robbed of her cubs.

[18:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and you will gather up your life and the life of your house.”

[20:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the men of Israel.” The noun phrase has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.