Judges 3:30

3:30 Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

Judges 11:40

11:40 Every year ¹  Israelite women commemorate ²  the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for four days. ³ 

Judges 17:6

17:6 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ⁴ 

Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ⁵ 

Judges 20:27

20:27 The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

Judges 20:30

20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ⁶  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

Judges 20:46

20:46 That day twenty-five thousand ⁷  sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors. ⁸ 

Judges 21:25

21:25 In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. ⁹ 

[11:40]  ¹ tn Heb “From days to days,” a Hebrew idiom for “annually.”

[11:40]  ² tn Heb “go to commemorate.” The rare Hebrew verb תָּנָה (tanah, “to tell; to repeat; to recount”) occurs only here and in 5:11.

[11:40]  ³ tn The Hebrew text adds, “in the year.” This is redundant (note “every year” at the beginning of the verse) and has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[17:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”

[20:21]  ¹ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

[20:30]  ¹ tn Heb “the third day.”

[20:46]  ¹ sn The number given here (twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites) is an approximate figure; v. 35 gives the more exact number (25,100). According to v. 15, the Benjaminite army numbered 26,700 (26,000 + 700). The figures in vv. 35 (rounded in vv. 44-46) and 47 add up to 25,700. What happened to the other 1,000 men? The most reasonable explanation is that they were killed during the first two days of fighting. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 429) and C. F. Burney (Judges, 475) reject this proposal, arguing that the narrator is too precise and concerned about details to omit such a fact. However, the account of the first two days’ fighting emphasizes Israel’s humiliating defeat. To speak of Benjaminite casualties would diminish the literary effect. In vv. 35, 44-47 the narrator’s emphasis is the devastating defeat that Benjamin experienced on this final day of battle. To mention the earlier days’ casualties at this point is irrelevant to his literary purpose. He allows readers who happen to be concerned with such details to draw conclusions for themselves.

[20:46]  ² tn Heb “So all the ones who fell from Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men, wielding the sword, in that day, all of these men of strength.

[21:25]  ¹ tn Heb “Each was doing what was right in his [own] eyes.”