Judges 1:8

1:8 The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

Judges 1:17

1:17 The men of Judah went with their brothers the men of Simeon ¹  and defeated the Canaanites living in Zephath. They wiped out Zephath. ²  So people now call the city Hormah. ³ 

Judges 3:16

3:16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. ⁴  He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.

Judges 11:38

11:38 He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave ⁵  for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills. ⁶ 

Judges 14:2

14:2 When he got home, ⁷  he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. ⁸  Now get her for my wife.”

[1:17]  ¹ tn Heb “Judah went with Simeon, his brother.”

[1:17]  ² tn Heb “it”; the referent (the city of Zephath) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:17]  ³ sn The name Hormah (חָרְמָה, khormah) sounds like the Hebrew verb translated “wipe out” (חָרַם, kharam).

[3:16]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term גֹּמֶד (gomed) denotes a unit of linear measure, perhaps a cubit (the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger – approximately 18 inches [45 cm]). Some suggest it is equivalent to the short cubit (the distance between the elbow and the knuckles of the clenched fist – approximately 13 inches [33 cm]) or to the span (the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger in a spread hand – approximately 9 inches [23 cm]). See BDB 167 s.v.; HALOT 196 s.v.; B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 142.

[11:38]  ¹ tn Heb “he sent her.”

[11:38]  ² tn Heb “on the hills.” The words “as she walked” are supplied.

[14:2]  ¹ tn Heb “and he went up.”

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