Judges 15:8

15:8 He struck them down and defeated them. ¹  Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Judges 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ²  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ³  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Judges 2:3

2:3 At that time I also warned you, ⁴  ‘If you disobey, ⁵  I will not drive out the Canaanites ⁶  before you. They will ensnare you ⁷  and their gods will lure you away.’” ⁸ 

Judges 6:9

6:9 I rescued you from Egypt’s power ⁹  and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.

Judges 8:19-20

8:19 He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, ¹⁰  as surely as the Lord is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.” 8:20 He ordered Jether his firstborn son, “Come on! ¹¹  Kill them!” But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, ¹²  because he was still young.

Judges 8:34

8:34 The Israelites did not remain true ¹³  to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

Judges 19:15

19:15 They stopped there and decided to spend the night ¹⁴  in Gibeah. They came into the city and sat down in the town square, but no one invited them to spend the night. ¹⁵ 

Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ¹⁶  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ¹⁷  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 2:14

2:14 The Lord was furious with Israel ¹⁸  and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. ¹⁹  He turned them over to ²⁰  their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks. ²¹ 

Judges 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ²²  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ²³ 

Judges 11:9

11:9 Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “All right! ²⁴  If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me, ²⁵  I will be your leader.” ²⁶ 

Judges 18:27

18:27 Now the Danites ²⁷  took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city. ²⁸ 

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors ²⁹  against Jabesh Gilead. ³⁰  They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords ³¹  the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

Judges 21:12

21:12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male. ³²  They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21:22

21:22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, ³³  we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, ³⁴  for we could not get each one a wife through battle. ³⁵  Don’t worry about breaking your oath! ³⁶  You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’” ³⁷ 

Judges 7:4

7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. ³⁸  Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. ³⁹  When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; ⁴⁰  when I say, ⁴¹  ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” ⁴² 

[15:8]  ¹ tn Heb “He struck them, calf on thigh, [with] a great slaughter.” The precise meaning of the phrase “calf on thigh” is uncertain.

[19:24]  ² tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ³ tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

[2:3]  ³ tn Heb “And I also said.” The use of the perfect tense here suggests that the messenger is recalling an earlier statement (see Josh 23:12-13). However, some translate, “And I also say,” understanding the following words as an announcement of judgment upon those gathered at Bokim.

[2:3]  ⁴ tn The words “If you disobey” are supplied in the translation for clarity. See Josh 23:12-13.

[2:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “them”; the referent (the Canaanites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:3]  ⁶ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word צִדִּים (tsiddim) is uncertain in this context. It may be related to an Akkadian cognate meaning “snare.” If so, a more literal translation would be “they will become snares to you.” Normally the term in question means “sides,” but this makes no sense here. On the basis of Num 33:55 some suggest the word for “thorns” has been accidentally omitted. If this word is added, the text would read, “they will become [thorns] in your sides” (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

[2:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “their gods will become a snare to you.”

[6:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “hand” (also a second time later in this verse).

[8:19]  ⁵ tn The words “I swear” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:20]  ⁶ tn Or “Arise!”

[8:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “did not draw his sword for he was afraid.”

[8:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “remember.”

[19:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “they turned aside there to enter to spend the night.”

[19:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “and he entered and sat down, and there was no one receiving them into the house to spend the night.”

[2:12]  ⁹ tn Or “fathers.”

[2:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

[2:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

[2:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “robbers who robbed them.” (The verb שָׁסָה [shasah] appears twice in the verse.)

[2:14]  ¹² tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”

[2:14]  ¹³ tn The word “attacks” is supplied in the translation both for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

[9:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ¹² tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

[11:9]  ¹² tn “All right” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “places them before me.”

[11:9]  ¹⁴ tn Some translate the final statement as a question, “will I really be your leader?” An affirmative sentence is preferable. Jephthah is repeating the terms of the agreement in an official manner. In v. 10 the leaders legally agree to these terms.

[18:27]  ¹³ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[18:27]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew adds “with fire.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons, because it is redundant in English.

[21:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[21:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “there.”

[21:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”

[21:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “who had not known a man with respect to the bed of a male.”

[21:22]  ¹⁶ tc The (original) LXX and Vulgate read “to you.”

[21:22]  ¹⁷ tn The words “and let them be” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[21:22]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “for we did not take each his wife in battle.”

[21:22]  ¹⁹ tn This sentence is not in the Hebrew text. It is supplied in the translation to clarify the logic of the statement.

[21:22]  ²⁰ tc Heb “You did not give to them, now you are guilty.” The MT as it stands makes little sense. It is preferable to emend לֹא (lo’, “not”) to לוּא (lu’, “if”). This particle introduces a purely hypothetical condition, “If you had given to them [but you didn’t].” See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 453-54.

[7:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “too many people.”

[7:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “test them for you there.”

[7:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he should go with you.”

[7:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb also has “to you.”

[7:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “he should not go.”