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 7:8

7:8 The men ³  who were chosen ⁴  took supplies ⁵  and their trumpets. Gideon ⁶  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ⁷  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ⁸  were camped down below ⁹  in the valley.

Judges 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ¹⁰  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ¹¹ 

Judges 16:28

16:28 Samson called to the Lord, “O Master, Lord, ¹²  remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge ¹³  against the Philistines for my two eyes!”

Judges 19:25

19:25 The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite ¹⁴  grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. ¹⁵  They raped ¹⁶  her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

[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.”

[7:8]  ³ tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ⁴ tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

[7:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[9:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “their brother.”

[9:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

[16:28]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew has אֲדֹנָי יֱהֹוִה (’adonay yehovih, “Lord Yahweh”).

[16:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “so I can get revenge with one act of vengeance.”

[19:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and he caused [her] to go outside to them.”

[19:25]  ¹¹ tn Heb “knew,” in the sexual sense.