Judges 15:9

15:9 The Philistines went up and invaded ¹  Judah. They arrayed themselves for battle ²  in Lehi.

Judges 1:22

Partial Success

1:22 When the men ³  of Joseph attacked ⁴  Bethel, ⁵  the Lord was with them.

Judges 16:8

16:8 So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.

Judges 21:4

21:4 The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace. ⁶ 

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, ⁷  went up to ⁸  Bethel. ⁹  They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything ¹⁰  that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace ¹¹  to the Lord.

Judges 4:5

4:5 She would sit ¹²  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ¹³  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ¹⁴ 

Judges 6:35

6:35 He sent messengers throughout Manasseh and summoned them to follow him as well. ¹⁵  He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet him.

Judges 20:30

20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ¹⁶  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

Judges 9:51

9:51 There was a fortified ¹⁷  tower ¹⁸  in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

Judges 15:6

15:6 The Philistines asked, ¹⁹  “Who did this?” They were told, ²⁰  “Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite ²¹  took Samson’s ²²  bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father. ²³ 

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ²⁴  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 16:18

16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, ²⁵  she sent for ²⁶  the rulers of the Philistines, saying, “Come up here again, for he has told me ²⁷  his secret.” ²⁸  So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ²⁹  went down and brought him back. ³⁰  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ³¹  Israel for twenty years.

Judges 18:12

18:12 They went up and camped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. (To this day that place is called Camp of Dan. ³²  It is west ³³  of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ³⁴  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ³⁵ 

Judges 20:18

20:18 The Israelites went up to Bethel ³⁶  and asked God, ³⁷  “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” ³⁸  The Lord said, “Judah should lead.”

Judges 20:23

20:23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we ³⁹  again march out to fight ⁴⁰  the Benjaminites, our brothers?” ⁴¹  The Lord said, “Attack them!” ⁴² 

[15:9]  ¹ tn Or “camped in.”

[15:9]  ² tn Or “spread out.” The Niphal of נָטָשׁ (natash) has this same sense in 2 Sam 5:18, 22.

[1:22]  ³ tn Heb “house.” This is a metonymy for the warriors from the tribe.

[1:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “went up.”

[1:22]  ⁵ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[21:4]  ⁵ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[20:26]  ⁷ tn Heb “and all the people.”

[20:26]  ⁸ tn Heb “went up and came [to].”

[20:26]  ⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:26]  ¹⁰ tn Traditionally, “fasted.”

[20:26]  ¹¹ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[4:5]  ⁹ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

[4:5]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “for judgment.”

[6:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and he also was summoned after him.”

[20:30]  ¹³ tn Heb “the third day.”

[9:51]  ¹⁵ tn Or “strong.”

[9:51]  ¹⁶ tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

[15:6]  ¹⁷ tn Or “said.”

[15:6]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and they said.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

[15:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Timnite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Samson) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:6]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text expands the statement with the additional phrase “burned with fire.” The words “with fire” are redundant in English and have been omitted from the translation for stylistic reasons. Some textual witnesses read “burned…her father’s house,” perhaps under the influence of 14:15. On the other hand, the shorter text may have lost this phrase due to haplography.

[16:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

[16:18]  ²¹ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:18]  ²² tn Heb “she sent and summoned.”

[16:18]  ²³ tc The translation follows the Qere, לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the Kethib, לָהּ (lah, “to her”).

[16:18]  ²⁴ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:31]  ²³ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

[16:31]  ²⁴ tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

[16:31]  ²⁵ tn Traditionally, “judged.”

[18:12]  ²⁵ tn Or “Mahaneh Dan”; the Hebrew term “Mahaneh” means “camp [of].” Many English versions retain the transliterated Hebrew expression, but cf. CEV “Dan’s Camp.”

[18:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “behind.”

[18:17]  ²⁷ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

[18:17]  ²⁸ tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

[20:18]  ²⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:18]  ³⁰ tn Heb “They arose and went up to Bethel and asked God, and the Israelites said.”

[20:18]  ³¹ tn Heb “Who should go up for us first for battle against the sons of Benjamin?”

[20:23]  ³¹ tn Heb “I” (collective singular).

[20:23]  ³² tn Heb “approach for battle.”

[20:23]  ³³ tn Heb “my brother” (collective singular).

[20:23]  ³⁴ tn Heb “Go up against him” (collective singular).