Judges 2:5

2:5 They named that place Bokim ¹  and offered sacrifices to the Lord there.

Judges 5:1

Celebrating the Victory in Song

5:1 On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this victory song: ² 

Judges 3:30

3:30 Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

Judges 4:23

4:23 That day God humiliated King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.

Judges 7:9

Gideon Reassured of Victory

7:9 That night the Lord said to Gideon, ³  “Get up! Attack ⁴  the camp, for I am handing it over to you. ⁵ 

Judges 15:17

15:17 When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down ⁶  and named that place Ramath Lehi. ⁷ 

Judges 6:32

6:32 That very day Gideon’s father named him Jerub-Baal, ⁸  because he had said, “Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down.”

Judges 6:40

6:40 That night God did as he asked. ⁹  Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ¹⁰ 

Judges 20:46

20:46 That day twenty-five thousand ¹¹  sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors. ¹² 

Judges 2:10

2:10 That entire generation passed away; ¹³  a new generation grew up ¹⁴  that had not personally experienced the Lord’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel. ¹⁵ 

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. ¹⁶  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 ¹⁷  the city and spread salt over it. ¹⁸ 

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 ¹⁹  to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel. ²⁰ 

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. ²¹  It is west ²²  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. ²³ 

Judges 20:26

20:26 So all the Israelites, the whole army, ²⁴  went up to ²⁵  Bethel. ²⁶  They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything ²⁷  that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace ²⁸  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. ²⁹ 

[2:5]  ¹ sn Bokim means “weeping ones” and is derived from the Hebrew verb בָּכָא (bakha’, “to weep”).

[5:1]  ² tn The words “this victory song” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:9]  ³ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “Go down against.”

[7:9]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, emphasizing the certainty of the promise.

[15:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “from his hand.”

[15:17]  ⁵ sn The name Ramath Lehi means “Height of the Jawbone.”

[6:32]  ⁵ tn Heb “He called him on that day Jerub-Baal.” The name means, at least by popular etymology, “Let Baal fight!”

[6:40]  ⁶ tn Heb “God did so that night.”

[20:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

[20:46]  ⁸ sn The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44-46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 429) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44-47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.

[20:46]  ⁹ tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.

[2:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “All that generation were gathered to their fathers.”

[2:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “arose after them.”

[2:10]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ tn Or “destroyed.”

[9:45]  ¹² tn Heb “sowed it with salt.”

[18:1]  ¹² tn Heb “an inheritance.”

[18:1]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

[20:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and all the people.”

[20:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “went up and came [to].”

[20:26]  ¹⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:26]  ¹⁸ tn Traditionally, “fasted.”

[20:26]  ¹⁹ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[20:35]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”