Judges 15:20

15:20 Samson led ¹  Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence. ² 

Judges 10:2-3

10:2 He led ³  Israel for twenty-three years, then died and was buried in Shamir.

10:3 Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ⁴ 

Judges 20:46

20:46 That day twenty-five thousand ⁵  sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors. ⁶ 

Judges 4:3

4:3 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera ⁷  had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, ⁸  and he cruelly ⁹  oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

Judges 7:3

7:3 Now, announce to the men, ¹⁰  ‘Whoever is shaking with fear ¹¹  may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.’” ¹²  Twenty-two thousand men ¹³  went home; ¹⁴  ten thousand remained.

Judges 8:10

8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. ¹⁵ 

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! ¹⁶  The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. ¹⁷ 

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ¹⁸  went down and brought him back. ¹⁹  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ²⁰  Israel for twenty years.

Judges 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ²¹ 

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. ²² 

[15:20]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[15:20]  ² tn Heb “in the days of the Philistines.”

[10:2]  ³ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[20:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

[20:46]  ⁷ sn The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44-46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 429) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44-47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.

[20:46]  ⁸ tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.

[4:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Sisera) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:3]  ¹⁰ tn Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels,” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255, and the article by R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.

[4:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “with strength.”

[7:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “call into the ears of the people.”

[7:3]  ¹² tn Heb “afraid and shaking.”

[7:3]  ¹³ tc Many interpreters reject the MT reading “and leave Mount Gilead” for geographical reasons. A possible alternative, involving rather radical emendation of the Hebrew text, would be, “So Gideon tested them” (i.e., thinned the ranks in this manner).

[7:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because warriors are in view, and in ancient Israelite culture these would be only males. (This is also the case in vv. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.)

[7:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or “turned around, back.”

[8:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “About fifteen thousand [in number] were all the ones remaining from the army of the sons of the east. The fallen ones were a hundred and twenty thousand [in number], men drawing the sword.”

[11:33]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

[11:33]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

[16:31]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

[16:31]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

[16:31]  ¹⁹ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[20:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

[20:35]  ²¹ tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”