Judges 20:33

20:33 ¹  All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

Judges 2:5

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

Judges 9:55

9:55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home. ³ 

Judges 15:17

15:17 When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down ⁴  and named that place Ramath Lehi. ⁵ 

Judges 19:13

19:13 He said to his servant, ⁶  “Come on, we will go into one of the other towns ⁷  and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”

Judges 11:19

11:19 Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, “Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.” ⁸ 

Judges 19:28

19:28 He said to her, “Get up, let’s leave!” But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home. ⁹ 

Judges 20:22

20:22 The Israelite army ¹⁰  took heart ¹¹  and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

Judges 20:36

20:36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.

The Israelites retreated before ¹²  Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

Judges 7:7

7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army ¹³  and I will hand Midian over to you. ¹⁴  The rest of the men should go home.” ¹⁵ 

Judges 18:10

18:10 When you invade, ¹⁶  you will encounter ¹⁷  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ¹⁸  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ¹⁹ 

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. ²⁰  It is west ²¹  of Kiriath Jearim.)

Judges 19:16

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ²²  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ²³ 

[20:33]  ¹ sn Verses 33-36a give a condensed account of the battle from this point on, while vv. 36b-48 offer a more detailed version of how the ambush contributed to Gibeah’s defeat.

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

[9:55]  ³ tn Heb “each to his own place.”

[15:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “from his hand.”

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

[19:13]  ⁵ tn Or “young man.”

[19:13]  ⁶ tn Heb “we will enter one of the places.”

[11:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “to my place.”

[19:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “And the man took her on the donkey and arose and went to his place.”

[20:22]  ⁸ tn Heb “The people, the men of Israel.”

[20:22]  ⁹ tn Or “encouraged one another.”

[20:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “gave place to.”

[7:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.

[7:7]  ¹¹ tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.

[7:7]  ¹² tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”

[18:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ¹² tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

[18:12]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Heb “behind.”

[19:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

[19:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”