Judges 15:3

15:3 Samson said to them, ¹  “This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!” ² 

Judges 1:3

1:3 The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon, ³  “Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites. ⁴  Then we ⁵  will go with you into your allotted land.” So the men of Simeon went with them.

Judges 2:21

2:21 So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.

Judges 6:10

6:10 I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship ⁶  the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’” ⁷ 

Judges 8:23

8:23 Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.”

Judges 12:2

12:2 Jephthah said to them, “My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. ⁸  I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power. ⁹ 

Judges 13:11

13:11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met ¹⁰  the man, he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” ¹¹  He said, “Yes.” ¹² 

Judges 20:4

20:4 The Levite, ¹³  the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, “I and my concubine stopped in ¹⁴  Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin ¹⁵  to spend the night.

Judges 9:2

9:2 “Tell ¹⁶  all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want ¹⁷  to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” ¹⁸ 

Judges 16:17

16:17 Finally he told her his secret. ¹⁹  He said to her, “My hair has never been cut, ²⁰  for I have been dedicated to God ²¹  from the time I was conceived. ²²  If my head ²³  were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”

Judges 17:2

17:2 He said to his mother, “You know ²⁴  the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen ²⁵  from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole ²⁶  it, but now I am giving it back to you.” ²⁷  His mother said, “May the Lord reward ²⁸  you, my son!”

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite ²⁹  said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem ³⁰  in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. ³¹  But no one has invited me into their home.

[15:3]  ¹ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the singular “to him.”

[15:3]  ² tn Heb “I am innocent this time from the Philistines when I do with them harm.”

[1:3]  ³ tn Heb “Judah said to Simeon, his brother.”

[1:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “Come up with me into our allotted land and let us attack the Canaanites.”

[1:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “I.” The Hebrew pronoun is singular, agreeing with the collective singular “Judah” earlier in the verse. English style requires a plural pronoun here, however.

[6:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “Do not fear.”

[6:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “you have not listened to my voice.”

[12:2]  ⁷ tn Heb A man of great strife I was and my people and the Ammonites.”

[12:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “hand.”

[13:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “came to.”

[13:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the woman.”

[13:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I [am].”

[20:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The man, the Levite.”

[20:4]  ¹² tn Heb “came to.”

[20:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “which belongs to Benjamin.”

[9:2]  ¹³ tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”

[9:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “What good is it to you?”

[9:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

[16:17]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a razor has not come upon my head.”

[16:17]  ¹⁷ tn Or “set apart to God.” Traditionally the Hebrew term נָזִיר (nazir) has been translated “Nazirite.” The word is derived from the verb נָזַר (nazar, “to dedicate; to consecrate; to set apart”).

[16:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “from the womb of my mother.”

[16:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “I.” The referent has been made more specific in the translation (“my head”).

[17:2]  ¹⁷ tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[17:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “taken.”

[17:2]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “took.”

[17:2]  ²⁰ tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.

[17:2]  ²¹ tn Traditionally, “bless.”

[19:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:18]  ²⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”