Judges 3:12

Deceit, Assassination, and Deliverance

3:12 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹  The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel ²  because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.

Judges 6:5

6:5 When they invaded ³  with their cattle and tents, they were as thick ⁴  as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. ⁵  They came to devour ⁶  the land.

Judges 7:1

Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ⁷  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ⁸  The Midianites ⁹  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Judges 9:3

9:3 His mother’s relatives ¹⁰  spoke on his behalf to ¹¹  all the leaders of Shechem and reported his proposal. ¹²  The leaders were drawn to Abimelech; ¹³  they said, “He is our close relative.” ¹⁴ 

Judges 11:7

11:7 Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave ¹⁵  my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”

Judges 15:12

15:12 They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me ¹⁶  you will not kill ¹⁷  me.”

Judges 16:15

16:15 She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ¹⁸  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

Judges 18:3

18:3 As they approached ¹⁹  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ²⁰  of the young Levite. So they stopped ²¹  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ²² 

Judges 19:24

19:24 Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s ²³  concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. ²⁴  But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!”

Judges 20:42

20:42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook ²⁵  them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. ²⁶ 

Judges 21:8

21:8 So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering. ²⁷ 

[3:12]  ¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord” (also later in this verse).

[3:12]  ² tn Heb “strengthened Eglon…against Israel.”

[6:5]  ³ tn Heb “came up.”

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “numerous.”

[6:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “To them and to their camels there was no number.”

[6:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “destroy.” The translation “devour” carries through the imagery of a locust plague earlier in this verse.

[7:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”

[7:1]  ⁶ sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

[7:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).

[9:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “brothers.”

[9:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “into the ears of.”

[9:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “and all these words.”

[9:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Their heart was inclined after Abimelech.”

[9:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “our brother.”

[11:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “Did you not hate me and make me leave?”

[15:12]  ¹¹ tn Or “swear to me.”

[15:12]  ¹² tn Heb “meet [with hostility]”; “harm.” In light of v. 13, “kill” is an appropriate translation.

[16:15]  ¹³ tn Heb “when your heart is not with me.”

[18:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “voice.” This probably means that “his speech was Judahite [i.e., southern] like their own, not Israelite [i.e., northern]” (R. G. Boling, Judges [AB], 263).

[18:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

[19:24]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “his”; the referent (the visiting Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “what is good in your eyes.”

[20:42]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “clung to”; or “stuck close.”

[20:42]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and those from the cities were striking them down in their midst.”

[21:8]  ²¹ tn Heb “Look, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.”