Judges 3:21

3:21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s ¹  belly.

Judges 8:16

8:16 He seized the leaders ²  of the city, along with some desert thorns and briers; he then “threshed” the men of Succoth with them. ³ 

Judges 9:43

9:43 he took his men ⁴  and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, ⁵  he attacked and struck them down. ⁶ 

Judges 13:19

13:19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord. The Lord’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched. ⁷ 

Judges 18:20

18:20 The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group. ⁸ 

Judges 19:29

19:29 When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. ⁹  Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. ¹⁰ 

Judges 6:27

6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants ¹¹  and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family ¹²  and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. ¹³ 

Judges 8:21

8:21 Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, ¹⁴  “Come on, ¹⁵  you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.” ¹⁶  So Gideon killed ¹⁷  Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

Judges 14:19

14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes ¹⁸  and gave them ¹⁹  to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. ²⁰ 

Judges 15:4

15:4 Samson went and captured three hundred jackals ²¹  and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. ²² 

Judges 19:1

Sodom and Gomorrah Revisited

19:1 In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite ²³  living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine ²⁴  from Bethlehem ²⁵  in Judah.

Judges 9:48

9:48 He and all his men ²⁶  went up on Mount Zalmon. He ²⁷  took an ax ²⁸  in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it ²⁹  on his shoulder and said to his men, “Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!” ³⁰ 

[3:21]  ¹ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Eglon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:16]  ² tn Heb “elders.”

[8:16]  ³ tc The translation follows the reading of several ancient versions (LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) in assuming the form וַיָּדָשׁ (vayyadash) from the verb דּוֹשׁ (dosh, “thresh”) as in v. 7. The MT reads instead the form וַיֹּדַע (vayyoda’, “make known”), a Hiphil form of יָדַע (yadah). In this case one could translate, “he used them [i.e., the thorns and briers] to teach the men of Succoth a lesson.”

[9:43]  ³ tn Heb “his people.”

[9:43]  ⁴ tn Heb “And he saw and, look, the people were coming out of the city.”

[9:43]  ⁵ tn Heb “he arose against them and struck them.”

[13:19]  ⁴ tc Heb “Doing an extraordinary deed while Manoah and his wife were watching.” The subject of the participle is missing. The translation assumes that the phrase “the Lord’s messenger” was lost by homoioteleuton. If the text originally read לַיהוָה מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה (layhavah mal’akh yÿhvah), the scribe’s eye could have jumped from the first יְהוָה to the second, accidentally omitting two of the three words. Later the conjunction וּ (shureq) would have been added to the following מַפְלִא (mafli’) for syntactical reasons. Another possibility is that a pronominal subject (הוּא, hu’) has been lost in the MT due to haplography.

[18:20]  ⁵ tn Heb “and went into the midst of the people.”

[19:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “he carved her up by her bones into twelve pieces.”

[19:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he sent her through all the territory of Israel.”

[6:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “men from among his servants.”

[6:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “house.”

[6:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “so he did it at night.”

[8:21]  ⁸ tn The words “to Gideon” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:21]  ⁹ tn Or “Arise.”

[8:21]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for as the man is his strength.”

[8:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “arose and killed.”

[14:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”

[14:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “changes [of clothes].”

[14:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he went up to his father’s house.”

[15:4]  ¹⁰ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

[15:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

[19:1]  ¹¹ tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”

[19:1]  ¹² sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.

[19:1]  ¹³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[9:48]  ¹² tn Heb “his people.”

[9:48]  ¹³ tn Heb “Abimelech.” The proper name has been replaced with the pronoun (“he”) due to considerations of English style.

[9:48]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew text has the plural here.

[9:48]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he lifted it and put [it].”

[9:48]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “What you have seen me do, quickly do like me.”