Judges 19:6

19:6 So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. ¹  Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!” ² 

Judges 20:47

20:47 Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ³  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ⁴ 

Judges 18:28

18:28 No one came to the rescue because the city ⁵  was far from Sidon ⁶  and they had no dealings with anyone. ⁷  The city ⁸  was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites ⁹  rebuilt the city and occupied it.

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, ¹⁰  went up to ¹¹  Bethel. ¹²  They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything ¹³  that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace ¹⁴  to the Lord.

Judges 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. ¹⁵  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ¹⁶  They went home ¹⁷  to their own territory, ¹⁸  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ¹⁹ 

[19:6]  ¹ tn Heb “And they sat and ate, the two of them together, and they drank.”

[19:6]  ² tn Heb “Be willing and spend the night so that your heart might be good.”

[21:2]  ³ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[21:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.

[18:28]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[18:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.”

[18:28]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “They”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[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.”

[21:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “did so.”

[21:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

[21:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “went and returned.”

[21:23]  ¹² tn Heb “inheritance.”

[21:23]  ¹³ tn Heb “and lived in them.”