Judges 2:9

2:9 The people ¹  buried him in his allotted land ²  in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Judges 5:6

5:6 In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,

in the days of Jael caravans ³  disappeared; ⁴ 

travelers ⁵  had to go on winding side roads.

Judges 11:3

11:3 So Jephthah left ⁶  his half-brothers ⁷  and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him. ⁸ 

Judges 15:16

15:16 Samson then said,

“With the jawbone of a donkey

I have left them in heaps; ⁹ 

with the jawbone of a donkey

I have struck down a thousand men!”

Judges 20:34-35

20:34 Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah – the battle was fierce. ¹⁰  But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep. ¹¹  20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. ¹² 

[2:9]  ¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[2:9]  ² tn Heb “in the territory of his inheritance.”

[5:6]  ³ tc The translation assumes the form אֳרְחוֹת (’orÿkhot, “caravans”) rather than אֳרָחוֹת (’orakhot, “roadways”) because it makes a tighter parallel with “travelers” in the next line.

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Or “ceased.”

[5:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “Ones walking on paths.”

[11:3]  ⁵ tn Or “fled from.”

[11:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “brothers.”

[11:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “Empty men joined themselves to Jephthah and went out with him.”

[15:16]  ⁷ 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”).

[20:34]  ⁹ tn Heb “heavy”; or “severe.”

[20:34]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And they did not know that touching against them was disaster.”

[20:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”