Judges 2:6

The End of an Era

2:6 When Joshua dismissed ¹  the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, ²  intending to take possession of the land.

Judges 3:17

3:17 He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)

Judges 7:21

7:21 They stood in order ³  all around the camp. The whole army ran away; they shouted as they scrambled away. ⁴ 

Judges 7:23

7:23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh answered the call and chased the Midianites. ⁵ 

Judges 8:25

8:25 They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.” ⁶  So they ⁷  spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

Judges 13:2

13:2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. ⁸ 

Judges 15:15-16

15:15 He happened to see ⁹  a solid ¹⁰  jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it ¹¹  and struck down ¹²  a thousand men. 15:16 Samson then said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey

I have left them in heaps; ¹³ 

with the jawbone of a donkey

I have struck down a thousand men!”

Judges 17:6

17:6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ¹⁴ 

Judges 18:11

18:11 So six hundred Danites, fully armed, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol. ¹⁵ 

Judges 18:16

18:16 Meanwhile the six hundred Danites, fully armed, stood at the entrance to the gate. ¹⁶ 

Judges 20:11

20:11 So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies. ¹⁷ 

Judges 20:41

20:41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked ¹⁸  because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep. ¹⁹ 

Judges 20:44

20:44 Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

Judges 21:1

600 Brides for 600 Brothers

21:1 The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

Judges 21:9

21:9 When they took roll call, ²⁰  they noticed ²¹  none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.

Judges 21:25

21:25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ²² 

[2:6]  ¹ tn Or “sent away.”

[2:6]  ² tn Heb “the Israelites went each to his inheritance.”

[7:21]  ³ tn Heb “each in his place.”

[7:21]  ⁴ tn Or “fled.”

[7:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “Midian.”

[8:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “We will indeed give.”

[8:25]  ⁸ tc In the LXX the subject of this verb is singular, referring to Gideon rather than to the Israelites.

[13:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “and had not given birth.”

[15:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he found.”

[15:15]  ¹² tn Heb “fresh,” i.e., not decayed and brittle.

[15:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “he reached out his hand and took it.”

[15:15]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text adds “with it.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[15:16]  ¹³ tn The precise meaning of the second half of the line (חֲמוֹר חֲמֹרָתָיִם, khamor khamoratayim) is uncertain. The present translation assumes that the phrase means, “a heap, two heaps” and refers to the heaps of corpses littering the battlefield. Other options include: (a) “I have made donkeys of them” (cf. NIV; see C. F. Burney, Judges, 373, for a discussion of this view, which understands a denominative verb from the noun “donkey”); (b) “I have thoroughly skinned them” (see HALOT 330 s.v. IV cj. חמר, which appeals to an Arabic cognate for support); (c) “I have stormed mightily against them,” which assumes the verb חָמַר (khamar, “to ferment; to foam; to boil up”).

[17:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

[18:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “They journeyed from there, from the tribe of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men, equipped with weapons of war.”

[18:16]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “And the six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war…from the sons of Dan.”

[20:11]  ²¹ tn Heb “gathered at the city as one man, united.”

[20:41]  ²³ tn Or “were terrified.”

[20:41]  ²⁴ tn Heb “disaster touched against them.”

[21:9]  ²⁵ tn Or “when the people were mustered.”

[21:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and look.”

[21:25]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”