Judges 1:7

1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up ¹  food scraps ²  under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them.” ³  They brought him to Jerusalem, ⁴  where he died.

Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified ⁵  tower ⁶  in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 18:2-3

18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, ⁷  capable men ⁸  from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house. ⁹  18:3 As they approached ¹⁰  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ¹¹  of the young Levite. So they stopped ¹²  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ¹³ 

Judges 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ¹⁴  you will encounter ¹⁵  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ¹⁶  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ¹⁷ 

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ¹⁸  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ¹⁹ 

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite ²⁰  said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem ²¹  in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. ²²  But no one has invited me into their home.

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, ²³  went up to ²⁴  Bethel. ²⁵  They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything ²⁶  that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace ²⁷  to the Lord.

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors ²⁸  against Jabesh Gilead. ²⁹  They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords ³⁰  the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

[1:7]  ¹ tn Elsewhere this verb usually carries the sense of “to gather; to pick up; to glean,” but “lick up” seems best here in light of the peculiar circumstances described by Adoni-Bezek.

[1:7]  ² tn The words “food scraps” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “Just as I did, so God has repaid me.” Note that the phrase “to them” has been supplied in the translation to clarify what is meant.

[1:7]  ⁴ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[9:51]  ⁵ tn Or “strong.”

[9:51]  ⁶ tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

[18:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”

[18:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[18:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”

[18:3]  ¹³ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

[18:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

[18:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ²⁰ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

[18:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

[18:17]  ²² tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

[19:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:18]  ²⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:18]  ²⁷ tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”

[20:26]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and all the people.”

[20:26]  ³⁰ tn Heb “went up and came [to].”

[20:26]  ³¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:26]  ³² tn Traditionally, “fasted.”

[20:26]  ³³ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[21:10]  ³³ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[21:10]  ³⁴ tn Heb “there.”

[21:10]  ³⁵ tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”