Judges 1:26

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

Judges 2:2

2:2 but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ ²  But you have disobeyed me. ³  Why would you do such a thing? ⁴ 

Judges 3:25

3:25 They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. ⁵  Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor! ⁶ 

Judges 5:4

5:4 O Lord, when you departed ⁷  from Seir,

when you marched from Edom’s plains,

the earth shook, the heavens poured down,

the clouds poured down rain. ⁸ 

Judges 5:31

5:31 May all your enemies perish like this, O Lord!

But may those who love you shine

like the rising sun at its brightest!” ⁹ 

And the land had rest for forty years.

Judges 6:4-5

6:4 They invaded the land ¹⁰  and devoured ¹¹  its crops ¹²  all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, ¹³  and they took away ¹⁴  the sheep, oxen, and donkeys. 6:5 When they invaded ¹⁵  with their cattle and tents, they were as thick ¹⁶  as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. ¹⁷  They came to devour ¹⁸  the land.

Judges 6:9-10

6:9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power ¹⁹  and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you. 6:10 I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship ²⁰  the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’” ²¹ 

Judges 6:40

6:40 That night God did as he asked. ²²  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Judges 8:28

Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken. ²³  The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time. ²⁴ 

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ²⁵  of the land. A unit ²⁶  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ²⁷ 

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ²⁸  his half-brothers ²⁹  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ³⁰ 

Judges 11:5

11:5 When the Ammonites attacked, ³¹  the leaders ³²  of Gilead asked Jephthah to come back ³³  from the land of Tob.

Judges 11:12

Jephthah Gives a History Lesson

11:12 Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king, saying, “Why have ³⁴  you come against me to attack my land?”

Judges 11:19

11:19 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, “Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.” ³⁵ 

Judges 13:20

13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it ³⁶  while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown ³⁷  to the ground.

Judges 20:1

Civil War Breaks Out

20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba ³⁸  and from the land of Gilead ³⁹  left their homes ⁴⁰  and assembled together ⁴¹  before the Lord at Mizpah.

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ⁴² 

[1:26]  ¹ tn Heb “the man.”

[2:2]  ² tn Heb “their altars.”

[2:2]  ³ tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

[2:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “What is this you have done?”

[3:25]  ³ tn The words “the doors” are supplied.

[3:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “See, their master, fallen to the ground, dead.”

[5:4]  ⁴ tn Or “went out.”

[5:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “water.”

[5:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “But may those who love him be like the going forth of the sun in its strength.”

[6:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “They encamped against them.”

[6:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “destroyed.”

[6:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “the crops of the land.”

[6:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”

[6:4]  ¹⁰ tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “came up.”

[6:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “numerous.”

[6:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “To them and to their camels there was no number.”

[6:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “destroy.” The translation “devour” carries through the imagery of a locust plague earlier in this verse.

[6:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “hand” (also a second time later in this verse).

[6:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “Do not fear.”

[6:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

[6:40]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “God did so that night.”

[8:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Midian was humbled before the Israelites, and they no longer lifted their heads.”

[8:28]  ¹² tn Heb “in the days of Gideon.”

[9:37]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Heb “head.”

[9:37]  ¹⁴ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

[11:3]  ¹³ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[11:5]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “When the Ammonites fought with Israel.”

[11:5]  ¹⁵ tn Or “elders.”

[11:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “went to take Jephthah.”

[11:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “What to me and to you that…?”

[11:19]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “to my place.”

[13:20]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

[13:20]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “on their faces.”

[20:1]  ¹⁸ sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

[20:1]  ¹⁹ sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

[20:1]  ²⁰ tn Heb “went out.”

[20:1]  ²¹ tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”

[20:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”