Judges 11:22

11:22 They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west. ¹ 

Judges 15:5

15:5 He lit the torches ²  and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

Judges 11:13

11:13 The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole ³  my land when they ⁴  came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. ⁵  Now return it ⁶  peaceably!”

Judges 11:33

11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! ⁷  The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. ⁸ 

Judges 20:1

Civil War Breaks Out

20:1 All the Israelites from Dan to Beer Sheba ⁹  and from the land of Gilead ¹⁰  left their homes ¹¹  and assembled together ¹²  before the Lord at Mizpah.

[11:22]  ¹ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok, and from the desert to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

[15:5]  ² tn Heb “He set fire to the torches.”

[11:13]  ³ tn Or “took”; or “seized.”

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “he” (a collective singular).

[11:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan.” The word “River” has been supplied in the translation with “Arnon” and “Jabbok,” because these are less familiar to modern readers than the Jordan.

[11:13]  ⁶ tc The translation assumes a singular suffix (“[return] it”); the Hebrew text has a plural suffix (“[return] them”), which, if retained, might refer to the cities of the land.

[11:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

[11:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

[20:1]  ⁵ sn Dan was located in the far north of the country, while Beer Sheba was located in the far south. This encompassed all the territory of the land of Canaan occupied by the Israelites.

[20:1]  ⁶ sn The land of Gilead was on the eastern side of the Jordan River.

[20:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “went out.”

[20:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the assembly was convened as one man.”