Judges 1:9

1:9 Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands. ¹ 

Judges 1:24

1:24 the spies spotted ²  a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

Judges 1:30

1:30 The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol. ³  The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor.

Judges 5:19

5:19 Kings came, they fought;

the kings of Canaan fought,

at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, ⁴ 

but ⁵  they took no silver as plunder.

Judges 6:4

6:4 They invaded the land ⁶  and devoured ⁷  its crops ⁸  all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, ⁹  and they took away ¹⁰  the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

Judges 6:24

6:24 Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” ¹¹  To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8:20

8:20 He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on! ¹²  Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, ¹³  because he was still young.

Judges 8:25

8:25 They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.” ¹⁴  So they ¹⁵  spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

Judges 9:45-46

9:45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled ¹⁶  the city and spread salt over it. ¹⁷ 

9:46 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem ¹⁸  heard the news, they went to the stronghold ¹⁹  of the temple of El-Berith. ²⁰ 

Judges 10:18

10:18 The leaders ²¹  of Gilead said to one another, “Who is willing to lead the charge ²²  against the Ammonites? He will become the leader of all who live in Gilead!”

Judges 11:20

11:20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. He ²³  assembled his whole army, ²⁴  camped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ²⁵  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 19:26

19:26 The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master ²⁶  was staying until it became light. ²⁷ 

Judges 20:5

20:5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. ²⁸  They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

Judges 20:25

20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. ²⁹ 

Judges 21:3

21:3 They said, “Why, O Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?” An entire ³⁰  tribe has disappeared from Israel today!”

[1:9]  ¹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

[1:24]  ² tn Heb “saw.”

[1:30]  ³ tn Heb “the people living in Kitron and the people living in Nahalol.”

[5:19]  ⁴ map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.

[5:19]  ⁵ tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.

[6:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “They encamped against them.”

[6:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “destroyed.”

[6:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the crops of the land.”

[6:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “They left no sustenance in Israel.”

[6:4]  ⁹ tn The words “they took away” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[6:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “The Lord is peace.” Gideon’s name for the altar plays on the Lord’s reassuring words to him, “Peace to you.”

[8:20]  ⁷ tn Or “Arise!”

[8:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “did not draw his sword for he was afraid.”

[8:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “We will indeed give.”

[8:25]  ⁹ tc In the LXX the subject of this verb is singular, referring to Gideon rather than to the Israelites.

[9:45]  ⁹ tn Or “destroyed.”

[9:45]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sowed it with salt.”

[9:46]  ¹⁰ sn Perhaps the Tower of Shechem was a nearby town, distinct from Shechem proper, or a tower within the city.

[9:46]  ¹¹ tn Apparently this rare word refers here to the most inaccessible area of the temple, perhaps the inner sanctuary or an underground chamber. It appears only here and in 1 Sam 13:6, where it is paired with “cisterns” and refers to subterranean or cave-like hiding places.

[9:46]  ¹² sn The name El-Berith means “God of the Covenant.” It is probably a reference to the Canaanite high god El.

[10:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the people, the officers.”

[10:18]  ¹² tn Heb “Who is the man who will begin fighting.”

[11:20]  ¹² tn Heb “Sihon.” The proper name (“Sihon”) has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) because of English style; a repetition of the proper name here would be redundant in English.

[11:20]  ¹³ tn Heb “all his people” (also in the following verse).

[15:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

[19:26]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew term here translated “master,” is plural. The plural indicates degree here and emphasizes the Levite’s absolute sovereignty over the woman.

[19:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “The woman came at the turning of the morning and fell at the door of the house of the man where her master was until the light.”

[20:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “arose against me and surrounded against me the house at night.”

[20:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day, and they struck down among the sons of Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all of these were wielding the sword.”

[21:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “one.”