Judges 2:10

2:10 That entire generation passed away; ¹  a new generation grew up ²  that had not personally experienced the Lord’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel. ³ 

Judges 3:9

3:9 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ⁴  raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued ⁵  them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. ⁶ 

Judges 3:15

3:15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, he ⁷  raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. ⁸  The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment. ⁹ 

Judges 3:20

3:20 When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated ¹⁰  upper room all by himself. Ehud said, “I have a message from God ¹¹  for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat, ¹² 

Judges 8:21

8:21 Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, ¹³  “Come on, ¹⁴  you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.” ¹⁵  So Gideon killed ¹⁶  Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ¹⁷  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ¹⁸  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹⁹ 

Judges 19:3

19:3 her husband came ²⁰  after her, hoping he could convince her to return. ²¹  He brought with him his servant ²²  and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father’s house and the girl’s father saw him, he greeted him warmly. ²³ 

Judges 19:9

19:9 When the man got ready to leave ²⁴  with his concubine and his servant, ²⁵  his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look! The day is almost over! ²⁶  Stay another night! Since the day is over, ²⁷  stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home.” ²⁸ 

[2:10]  ¹ tn Heb “All that generation were gathered to their fathers.”

[2:10]  ² tn Heb “arose after them.”

[2:10]  ³ tn Heb “that did not know the Lord or the work which he had done for Israel.” The expressions “personally experienced” and “seen” are interpretive.

[3:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord.”

[3:9]  ⁵ tn Or “delivered.”

[3:9]  ⁶ tn “Caleb’s younger brother” may refer to Othniel or to Kenaz (in which case Othniel is Caleb’s nephew).

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “the Lord.” This has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[3:15]  ⁸ tn The phrase, which refers to Ehud, literally reads “bound/restricted in the right hand,” apparently a Hebrew idiom for a left-handed person. See Judg 20:16, where 700 Benjaminites are described in this way. Perhaps the Benjaminites purposely trained several of their young men to be left-handed warriors by restricting the use of the right hand from an early age so the left hand would become dominant. Left-handed men would have a distinct military advantage, especially when attacking city gates. See B. Halpern, “The Assassination of Eglon: The First Locked-Room Murder Mystery,” BRev 4 (1988): 35.

[3:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “The Israelites sent by his hand an offering to Eglon, king of Moab.”

[3:20]  ¹⁰ tn Or “cool.” This probably refers to a room with latticed windows which allowed the breeze to pass through. See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 144.

[3:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “word of [i.e., from] God.”

[3:20]  ¹² tn Or “throne.”

[8:21]  ¹³ tn The words “to Gideon” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:21]  ¹⁴ tn Or “Arise.”

[8:21]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for as the man is his strength.”

[8:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “arose and killed.”

[16:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

[19:3]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “arose and came.”

[19:3]  ²⁰ tn Heb “to speak to her heart to bring her back.”

[19:3]  ²¹ tn Or “young man.”

[19:3]  ²² tn Heb “he was happy to meet him.”

[19:9]  ²² tn Heb “the man arose to go.”

[19:9]  ²³ tn Or “young man.”

[19:9]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the day is sinking to become evening.”

[19:9]  ²⁵ tn Or “declining.”

[19:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “for your way and go to your tent.”