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 6:25

Gideon Destroys the Altar

6:25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. ⁴  Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Judges 9:45

9:45 Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled ⁵  the city and spread salt over it. ⁶ 

Judges 18:1

The Tribe of Dan Finds an Inheritance

18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place ⁷  to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. ⁸ 

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. ⁹  It is west ¹⁰  of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ¹¹ 

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, ¹²  went up to ¹³  Bethel. ¹⁴  They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything ¹⁵  that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace ¹⁶  to the Lord.

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. ¹⁷ 

[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.

[6:25]  ⁴ tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar.

[9:45]  ⁷ tn Or “destroyed.”

[9:45]  ⁸ tn Heb “sowed it with salt.”

[18:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “an inheritance.”

[18:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “because there had not fallen to them by that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel an inheritance.”

[18:12]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “behind.”

[20:15]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

[20:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and all the people.”

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

[20:26]  ²¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:26]  ²² tn Traditionally, “fasted.”

[20:26]  ²³ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[20:35]  ²² tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”