Judges 3:20

3:20 When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated ¹  upper room all by himself. Ehud said, “I have a message from God ²  for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat, ³ 

Judges 7:8

7:8 The men ⁴  who were chosen ⁵  took supplies ⁶  and their trumpets. Gideon ⁷  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ⁸  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ⁹  were camped down below ¹⁰  in the valley.

Judges 9:27

9:27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, ¹¹  squeezed out the juice, ¹²  and celebrated. They came to the temple ¹³  of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.

Judges 11:36

11:36 She said to him, “My father, since ¹⁴  you made an oath to the Lord, do to me as you promised. ¹⁵  After all, the Lord vindicated you before ¹⁶  your enemies, the Ammonites.”

Judges 14:12

14:12 Samson said to them, “I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, ¹⁷  I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets ¹⁸  of clothes.

Judges 16:24

16:24 When the people saw him, ¹⁹  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!” ²⁰ 

Judges 18:3

18:3 As they approached ²¹  Micah’s house, they recognized the accent ²²  of the young Levite. So they stopped ²³  there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?” ²⁴ 

Judges 18:9-10

18:9 They said, “Come on, let’s attack them, ²⁵  for ²⁶  we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, ²⁷  but don’t hesitate ²⁸  to invade and conquer ²⁹  the land. 18:10 When you invade, ³⁰  you will encounter ³¹  unsuspecting people. The land is wide! ³²  God is handing it over to you – a place that lacks nothing on earth!” ³³ 

Judges 19:11

19:11 When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late ³⁴  and the servant ³⁵  said to his master, “Come on, let’s stop at ³⁶  this Jebusite city and spend the night in it.”

Judges 19:30

19:30 Everyone who saw the sight ³⁷  said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since ³⁸  the Israelites left the land of Egypt! ³⁹  Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”

[3:20]  ¹ tn Or “cool.” This probably refers to a room with latticed windows which allowed the breeze to pass through. See B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 144.

[3:20]  ² tn Heb “word of [i.e., from] God.”

[3:20]  ³ tn Or “throne.”

[7:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ⁵ tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

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

[7:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[9:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “vineyards.”

[9:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “stomped” or “trampled.” This refers to the way in which the juice was squeezed out in the wine vats by stepping on the grapes with one’s bare feet. For a discussion of grape harvesting in ancient Israel, see O. Borowski, Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, 110-14.

[9:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “house.”

[11:36]  ¹⁰ tn The conjunction “since” is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[11:36]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to [what] went out from your mouth.”

[11:36]  ¹² tn Or “has given you vengeance against.”

[14:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “If you really can tell it to me [during] the seven days of the feast and you find [its answer].”

[14:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “changes.”

[16:24]  ¹⁶ 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]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “multiplied our dead.”

[18:3]  ¹⁹ tn Or “When they were near.”

[18:3]  ²⁰ 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]  ²¹ tn Heb “turned aside.”

[18:3]  ²² tn Heb “What [is there] to you here?”

[18:9]  ²² tn Heb “Arise, and let us go up against them.”

[18:9]  ²³ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX adds “we entered and walked around in the land as far as Laish and.”

[18:9]  ²⁴ tn Heb “But you are inactive.”

[18:9]  ²⁵ tn Or “be lazy.”

[18:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “to go”; “to enter”; “to possess.”

[18:10]  ²⁵ tn Heb “When you enter.”

[18:10]  ²⁶ tn Heb “you will come to.”

[18:10]  ²⁷ tn Heb “broad of hands,” an idiom meaning “wide on both sides.”

[18:10]  ²⁸ tn Heb “a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

[19:11]  ²⁸ tn Heb “and the day was descending greatly.”

[19:11]  ²⁹ tn Or “young man.”

[19:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “turn aside” (also in the following verse).

[19:30]  ³¹ tn The words “the sight” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[19:30]  ³² tn Heb “from the day.”

[19:30]  ³³ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the (original) LXX has the following additional words: “And he instructed the men whom he sent out, ‘Thus you will say to every male Israelite: “There has never been anything like this from the day the Israelites left Egypt till the present day.”’”