Judges 2:20

A Divine Decision

2:20 The Lord was furious with Israel. ¹  He said, “This nation ²  has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors ³  by disobeying me. ⁴ 

Judges 6:26

6:26 Then build an altar for the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. ⁵  Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

Judges 8:1

8:1 The Ephraimites said to him, “Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us ⁶  when you went to fight the Midianites!” They argued vehemently with him.

Judges 8:3

8:3 It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?” ⁷  When he said this, they calmed down. ⁸ 

Judges 10:4

10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair ⁹  – they are in the land of Gilead. ¹⁰ 

Judges 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. ¹¹  For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” ¹² 

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, ¹³  I risked my life ¹⁴  and advanced against ¹⁵  the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up ¹⁶  to fight with me today?”

Judges 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin ¹⁷  at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength ¹⁸  was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring ¹⁹  En Hakkore. ²⁰  It remains in Lehi to this very day.

Judges 16:28

16:28 Samson called to the Lord, “O Master, Lord, ²¹  remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge ²²  against the Philistines for my two eyes!”

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. ²³  It is west ²⁴  of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 19:23-24

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing! 19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ²⁵  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ²⁶  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Judges 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight ²⁷  said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since ²⁸  the Israelites left the land of Egypt! ²⁹  Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

[2:20]  ¹ tn Or “The Lord’s anger burned [or “raged”] against Israel.”

[2:20]  ² tn Heb “Because this nation.”

[2:20]  ³ tn Heb “my covenant which I commanded their fathers.”

[2:20]  ⁴ tn Heb “and has not listened to my voice.” The expression “to not listen to [God’s] voice” is idiomatic here for disobeying him.

[6:26]  ⁵ tn Possibly “in a row” or “in a layer,” perhaps referring to the arrangement of the stones used in the altar’s construction.

[8:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “by not summoning us.”

[8:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “What was I able to do compared to you?”

[8:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Then their spirits relaxed from against him, when he spoke this word.”

[10:4]  ¹⁷ sn The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.

[10:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “they call them Havvoth Jair to this day – which are in the land of Gilead.”

[11:37]  ²¹ tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

[11:37]  ²² tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

[12:3]  ²⁵ tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

[12:3]  ²⁶ tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

[12:3]  ²⁷ tn Heb “crossed over to.”

[12:3]  ²⁸ tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:19]  ²⁹ tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

[15:19]  ³⁰ tn Heb “spirit.”

[15:19]  ³¹ tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:19]  ³² sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”

[16:28]  ³³ tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).

[16:28]  ³⁴ tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”

[18:12]  ³⁷ 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]  ³⁸ tn Heb “behind.”

[19:24]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ⁴² tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

[19:30]  ⁴⁵ tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[19:30]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “from the day.”

[19:30]  ⁴⁷ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”