Judges 1:5

1:5 They met ¹  Adoni-Bezek at Bezek and fought him. They defeated the Canaanites and Perizzites.

Judges 15:15

15:15 He happened to see ²  a solid ³  jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it ⁴  and struck down ⁵  a thousand men.

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ⁶  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁷  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁸ 

Judges 5:30

5:30 ‘No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder ⁹  –

a girl or two for each man to rape! ¹⁰ 

Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, ¹¹ 

he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, ¹² 

two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth,

for the neck of the plunderer!’ ¹³ 

Judges 6:17

6:17 Gideon ¹⁴  said to him, “If you really are pleased with me, ¹⁵  then give me ¹⁶  a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

Judges 17:8-9

17:8 This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house. ¹⁷  17:9 Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live.” ¹⁸ 

Judges 21:14

21:14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites ¹⁹  gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. ²⁰ 

Judges 6:13

6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, ²¹  but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster ²²  overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ²³  ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Judges 9:33

9:33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.” ²⁴ 

Judges 14:12

14:12 Samson said to them, “I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, ²⁵  I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets ²⁶  of clothes.

Judges 14:18

14:18 On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,

“What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?”

He said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer, ²⁷ 

you would not have solved my riddle!”

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ²⁸  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

[1:5]  ¹ tn Or “found.”

[15:15]  ² tn Heb “he found.”

[15:15]  ³ tn Heb “fresh,” i.e., not decayed and brittle.

[15:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “he reached out his hand and took it.”

[15:15]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text adds “with it.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:48]  ³ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

[20:48]  ⁴ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

[20:48]  ⁵ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”

[5:30]  ⁴ tn Heb “Are they not finding, dividing the plunder?”

[5:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “a womb or two for each man.” The words “to rape” are interpretive. The Hebrew noun translated “girl” means literally “womb” (BDB 933 s.v. I. רַחַם), but in this context may refer by extension to the female genitalia. In this case the obscene language of Sisera’s mother alludes to the sexual brutality which typified the aftermath of battle.

[5:30]  ⁶ tn Heb “the plunder of dyed cloth is for Sisera.”

[5:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “the plunder of embroidered cloth.”

[5:30]  ⁸ tn The translation assumes an emendation of the noun (“plunder”) to a participle, “plunderer.”

[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.”

[17:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “He came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, making his way.”

[17:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “And I am going to reside in a place I can find.”

[21:14]  ⁸ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:14]  ⁹ tn Heb “but they did not find for them enough.”

[6:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “But my lord.”

[6:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “all this.”

[6:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “saying.”

[9:33]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look! He and the people who are with him will come out to you, and you will do to him what your hand finds [to do].”

[14:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “If you really can tell it to me [during] the seven days of the feast and you find [its answer].”

[14:12]  ¹² tn Heb “changes.”

[14:18]  ¹² sn Plowed with my heifer. This statement emphasizes that the Philistines had utilized a source of information which should have been off-limits to them. Heifers were used in plowing (Hos 10:11), but one typically used one’s own farm animals, not another man’s.

[21:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”