Judges 1:4

1:4 The men of Judah attacked, ¹  and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 4:10

4:10 Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; ²  Deborah went up with him as well.

Judges 8:8

8:8 He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. ³  The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had. ⁴ 

Judges 8:11

8:11 Gideon went up the road of the nomads ⁵  east of Nobah and Jogbehah and ambushed the surprised army. ⁶ 

Judges 13:19-20

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. ⁷  13:20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it ⁸  while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown ⁹  to the ground.

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ¹⁰  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ¹¹  Now get her for my wife.”

Judges 2:1

Confrontation and Repentance at Bokim

2:1 The Lord’s angelic messenger ¹²  went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. ¹³  I said, ‘I will never break my agreement ¹⁴  with you,

Judges 14:19

14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes ¹⁵  and gave them ¹⁶  to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. ¹⁷ 

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ¹⁸  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ¹⁹  took an ax ²⁰  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ²¹  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ²² 

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Judah went up.”

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “went up at his feet.”

[8:8]  ³ tn Heb “and spoke to them in the same way.”

[8:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “The men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.”

[8:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the ones living in tents.”

[8:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “and attacked the army, while the army was secure.” The Hebrew term בֶטַח (vetakh, “secure”) probably means the army was undefended (see R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 156), not suspecting an attack at that time and place.

[13:19]  ⁵ tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

[13:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the flame from the altar.”

[13:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “on their faces.”

[14:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went up.”

[14:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “I have seen a woman in Timnah, one of the daughters of the Philistines.”

[2:1]  ⁸ sn See Exod 14:19; 23:20.

[2:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “the land that I had sworn to your fathers.”

[2:1]  ¹⁰ tn Or “covenant” (also in the following verse).

[14:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”

[14:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”

[14:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”

[9:48]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his people.”

[9:48]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

[9:48]  ¹² tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

[9:48]  ¹³ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

[9:48]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”