Judges 11:14

11:14 Jephthah sent messengers back to the Ammonite king

Judges 9:37

9:37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center ¹  of the land. A unit ²  is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.” ³ 

Judges 13:9

13:9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. ⁴  God’s angelic messenger visited ⁵  the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.

Judges 13:21

13:21 The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger. ⁶ 

Judges 18:24

18:24 He said, “You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, ‘What do you want?’” ⁷ 

Judges 2:14

2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel ⁸  and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. ⁹  He turned them over to ¹⁰  their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. ¹¹ 

Judges 13:8

13:8 Manoah prayed to the Lord, ¹²  “Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God ¹³  to visit ¹⁴  us again, so he can teach ¹⁵  us how we should raise ¹⁶  the child who will be born.”

Judges 20:25

20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. ¹⁷ 

Judges 20:28

20:28 Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the Lord ¹⁸  in those days), “Should we ¹⁹  once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, ²⁰  or should we ²¹  quit?” The Lord said, “Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them ²²  over to you.”

Judges 7:4

7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. ²³  Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. ²⁴  When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; ²⁵  when I say, ²⁶  ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” ²⁷ 

[9:37]  ¹ tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.

[9:37]  ² tn Heb “head.”

[9:37]  ³ tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.

[13:9]  ¹ tn Heb “God listened to the voice of Manoah.”

[13:9]  ² tn Heb “came to.”

[13:21]  ¹ tn Heb “Then Manoah knew that he was the Lord’s messenger.”

[18:24]  ¹ tn Heb “What is this you say to me, ‘What to you?’”

[2:14]  ¹ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

[2:14]  ² tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

[2:14]  ³ tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

[2:14]  ⁴ tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ¹ tn The Hebrew text adds “and said.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:8]  ² tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:8]  ³ tn Heb “come to.”

[13:8]  ⁴ tc The LXX has “enlighten,” understanding the Hebrew to read וִיאִירֵנוּ (vi’irenu, “to give light”) rather than the reading of the MT, וְיוֹרֵנוּ (vÿyorenu, “to teach”).

[13:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “what we should do for.”

[20:25]  ¹ 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.”

[20:28]  ¹ tn Heb “standing before him.”

[20:28]  ² tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

[20:28]  ³ tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).

[20:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

[20:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “him” (collective singular).

[7:4]  ¹ tn Heb “too many people.”

[7:4]  ² tn Heb “test them for you there.”

[7:4]  ³ tn Heb “he should go with you.”

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Heb also has “to you.”

[7:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “he should not go.”