Judges 1:29

1:29 The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

Judges 2:23

2:23 This is why ¹  the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; ²  he did not hand them over to Joshua.

Judges 3:6

3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ³  they worshiped ⁴  their gods as well.

Judges 6:6

6:6 Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.

Judges 8:9

8:9 He also threatened ⁵  the men of Penuel, warning, ⁶  “When I return victoriously, ⁷  I will tear down this tower.”

Judges 9:21

9:21 Then Jotham ran away ⁸  to Beer and lived there to escape from ⁹  Abimelech his half-brother. ¹⁰ 

Judges 10:2

10:2 He led ¹¹  Israel for twenty-three years, then died and was buried in Shamir.

Judges 10:16

10:16 They threw away the foreign gods they owned ¹²  and worshiped ¹³  the Lord. Finally the Lord grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much. ¹⁴ 

Judges 11:28

11:28 But the Ammonite king disregarded ¹⁵  the message sent by Jephthah. ¹⁶ 

Judges 12:7

12:7 Jephthah led ¹⁷  Israel for six years; then he ¹⁸  died and was buried in his city in Gilead. ¹⁹ 

Judges 12:15

12:15 Then Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

Judges 13:25

13:25 The Lord’s spirit began to control him ²⁰  in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 17:6

17:6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ²¹ 

Judges 18:6

18:6 The priest said to them, “Go with confidence. ²²  The Lord will be with you on your mission.” ²³ 

Judges 20:11

20:11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies. ²⁴ 

Judges 21:4

21:4 The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace. ²⁵ 

[2:23]  ¹ tn The words “this is why” are interpretive.

[2:23]  ² tn Or “quickly.”

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “to their sons.”

[3:6]  ² tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).

[8:9]  ¹ tn Heb “said to.” The translation “threatened” is interpretive, but is clearly indicated by the context.

[8:9]  ² tn Heb “saying.”

[8:9]  ³ tn Or “safely.” Heb “in peace.”

[9:21]  ¹ tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”

[9:21]  ² tn Heb “from before.”

[9:21]  ³ tn Heb “his brother.”

[10:2]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[10:16]  ¹ tn Heb “from their midst.”

[10:16]  ² tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

[10:16]  ³ tn Heb “And his spirit grew short [i.e., impatient] with the suffering of Israel.” The Hebrew noun נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) also appears as the subject of the verb קָצַר (qatsar) in Num 21:4 (the Israelites grow impatient wandering in the wilderness), Judg 16:16 (Samson grows impatient with Delilah’s constant nagging), and Zech 11:8 (Zechariah grows impatient with the three negligent “shepherds”).

[11:28]  ¹ tn Heb “did not listen to.”

[11:28]  ² tn Heb “Jephthah’s words which he sent to him.”

[12:7]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[12:7]  ² tn Heb “Jephthah the Gileadite.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[12:7]  ³ tc The Hebrew text has “in the cities of Gilead.” The present translation has support from some ancient Greek textual witnesses.

[13:25]  ¹ tn Or “move him to action”; or “stir him.”

[17:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

[18:6]  ¹ tn Heb “in peace.”

[18:6]  ² tn Heb “In front of the LORD is your way in which you are going.”

[20:11]  ¹ tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”

[21:4]  ¹ tn Or “peace offerings.”