Judges 2:7

2:7 The people worshiped ¹  the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men ²  who outlived him remained alive. These men had witnessed ³  all the great things the Lord had done for Israel. ⁴ 

Judges 4:22

4:22 Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, “Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for.” He went with her into the tent, ⁵  and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead ⁶  with the tent peg in his temple.

Judges 11:35

11:35 When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! ⁷  You have brought me disaster! ⁸  I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” ⁹ 

Judges 12:3

12:3 When I saw that you were not going to help, ¹⁰  I risked my life ¹¹  and advanced against ¹²  the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up ¹³  to fight with me today?”

Judges 13:23

13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. ¹⁴  He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ¹⁵  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 16:18

16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, ¹⁶  she sent for ¹⁷  the rulers of the Philistines, saying, “Come up here again, for he has told me ¹⁸  his secret.” ¹⁹  So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.

Judges 16:24

16:24 When the people saw him, ²⁰  they praised their god, saying, “Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!” ²¹ 

Judges 18:7

18:7 So the five men journeyed on ²²  and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there ²³  were living securely, like the Sidonians do, ²⁴  undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. ²⁵  They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. ²⁶ 

Judges 18:9

18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, ²⁷  for ²⁸  we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, ²⁹  but don’t hesitate ³⁰  to invade and conquer ³¹  the land.

Judges 19:3

19:3 her husband came ³²  after her, hoping he could convince her to return. ³³  He brought with him his servant ³⁴  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. ³⁵ 

Judges 21:21

21:21 and keep your eyes open. ³⁶  When you see ³⁷  the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, ³⁸  jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

[2:7]  ¹ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

[2:7]  ² tn Or perhaps “elders,” which could be interpreted to mean “leaders.”

[2:7]  ³ tn Heb “all the days of Joshua and all the days of the old men who outlived him, who had seen.”

[2:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.”

[4:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “he went to her.”

[4:22]  ⁶ tn Heb “fallen, dead.”

[11:35]  ⁹ tn Heb “you have brought me very low,” or “you have knocked me to my knees.” The infinitive absolute precedes the verb for emphasis.

[11:35]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “You are among [or “like”] those who trouble me.”

[11:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I opened my mouth to the Lord and I am not able to return.”

[12:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “you were no deliverer.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX has “no one was helping.”

[12:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I put my life in my hand.”

[12:3]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “crossed over to.”

[12:3]  ¹⁶ tn The Hebrew adds “against me” here. This is redundant in English and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[13:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “our hand.”

[16:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

[16:18]  ²⁵ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:18]  ²⁶ tn Heb “she sent and summoned.”

[16:18]  ²⁷ tc The translation follows the Qere, לִי (li, “to me”) rather than the Kethib, לָהּ (lah, “to her”).

[16:18]  ²⁸ tn Heb “all his heart.”

[16:24]  ²⁹ tn Most interpret this as a reference to Samson, but this seems premature, since v. 25 suggests he was not yet standing before them. Consequently some prefer to see this statement as displaced and move it to v. 25 (see C. F. Burney, Judges, 387). It seems more likely that the pronoun refers to an image of Dagon.

[16:24]  ³⁰ tn Heb “multiplied our dead.”

[18:7]  ³³ tn Or “went.”

[18:7]  ³⁴ tn Heb “who were in its midst.”

[18:7]  ³⁵ tn Heb “according to the custom of the Sidonians.”

[18:7]  ³⁶ tn Heb “and there was no one humiliating anything in the land, one taking possession [by] force.”

[18:7]  ³⁷ tc Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.” Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX and Symmachus read “Syria” here rather than the MT’s “men.” This reading presupposes a Hebrew Vorlage אֲרָם (’aram, “Aram,” i.e., Arameans) rather than the MT reading אָדָם (’adam). This reading is possibly to be preferred over the MT.

[18:9]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”

[18:9]  ³⁸ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”

[18:9]  ³⁹ tn Heb “But you are inactive.”

[18:9]  ⁴⁰ tn Or “be lazy.”

[18:9]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”

[19:3]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “arose and came.”

[19:3]  ⁴² tn Heb “to speak to her heart to bring her back.”

[19:3]  ⁴³ tn Or “young man.”

[19:3]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “he was happy to meet him.”

[21:21]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “and look.”

[21:21]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “and look, when.”

[21:21]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “in the dances.”