Judges 16:4

16:4 After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Judges 6:33

Gideon Summons an Army and Seeks Confirmation

6:33 All the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east ¹  assembled. They crossed the Jordan River ²  and camped in the Jezreel Valley.

Judges 5:15

5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,

the men of Issachar ³  supported ⁴  Barak;

into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. ⁵ 

Among the clans of Reuben there was intense ⁶  heart searching. ⁷ 

Judges 7:1

Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ⁸  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ⁹  The Midianites ¹⁰  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Judges 7:8

7:8 The men ¹¹  who were chosen ¹²  took supplies ¹³  and their trumpets. Gideon ¹⁴  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ¹⁵  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ¹⁶  were camped down below ¹⁷  in the valley.

Judges 7:12

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹⁸  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 18:28

18:28 No one came to the rescue because the city ¹⁹  was far from Sidon ²⁰  and they had no dealings with anyone. ²¹  The city ²²  was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites ²³  rebuilt the city and occupied it.

Judges 1:34

1:34 The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in ²⁴  the coastal plain.

Judges 1:19

1:19 The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered ²⁵  the hill country, but they could not ²⁶  conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels. ²⁷ 

Judges 5:14

5:14 They came from Ephraim, who uprooted Amalek, ²⁸ 

they follow ²⁹  after you, Benjamin, with your soldiers.

From Makir leaders came down,

from Zebulun came ³⁰  the ones who march carrying ³¹  an officer’s staff.

Judges 1:9

1:9 Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands. ³² 

[6:33]  ¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east.”

[6:33]  ² tn The words “the Jordan River” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:15]  ² tn Or “was true to.”

[5:15]  ³ tn Heb “at his feet.”

[5:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “great was.”

[5:15]  ⁵ tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16.

[7:1]  ¹ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”

[7:1]  ² sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).

[7:8]  ¹ tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ² tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ³ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

[7:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[7:12]  ¹ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”

[18:28]  ¹ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ² map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[18:28]  ³ tn Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.”

[18:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “They”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:34]  ¹ tn Heb “come down into.”

[1:19]  ¹ tn Or “seized possession of”; or “occupied.”

[1:19]  ² tc Several textual witnesses support the inclusion of this verb.

[1:19]  ³ 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.

[5:14]  ¹ tn Heb “From Ephraim their root in Amalek” (the words “they came” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons). Because of the difficulty of the MT, many prefer to follow one of the ancient versions or emend the text. For various proposals see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 252-53. The present translation repoints שָׁרְשָׁם (shorsham, traditionally translated “their root”) as a Piel verb form with enclitic mem (ם). The preposition ב (bet) on עֲמָלֵק (’amaleq) introduces the object (see Job 31:12 for an example of the construction). Ephraim’s territory encompassed the hill country of the Amalekites (Judg 12:15).

[5:14]  ² tn The words “They follow” are supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[5:14]  ³ tn The word “came” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[5:14]  ⁴ tn Or possibly “who carry.”

[1:9]  ¹ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”