Judges 4:6

4:6 She summoned ¹  Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, “Is it not true that the Lord God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!

Judges 4:14

4:14 Deborah said to Barak, “Spring into action, ²  for this is the day the Lord is handing Sisera over to you! ³  Has the Lord not taken the lead?” ⁴  Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

Judges 6:2

6:2 The Midianites ⁵  overwhelmed Israel. ⁶  Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters ⁷  for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

Judges 7:3

7:3 Now, announce to the men, ⁸  ‘Whoever is shaking with fear ⁹  may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.’” ¹⁰  Twenty-two thousand men ¹¹  went home; ¹²  ten thousand remained.

Judges 9:7

Jotham’s Parable

9:7 When Jotham heard the news, ¹³  he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, ¹⁴  “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!

Judges 11:37

11:37 She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. ¹⁵  For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” ¹⁶ 

Judges 16:3

16:3 Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. ¹⁷  He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. ¹⁸  He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron. ¹⁹ 

Judges 18:2

18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, ²⁰  capable men ²¹  from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house. 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 19:16

19:16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. ²⁶  The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.) ²⁷ 

Judges 19:18

19:18 The Levite ²⁸  said to him, “We are traveling from Bethlehem ²⁹  in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. ³⁰  But no one has invited me into their home.

[4:6]  ¹ tn Heb “sent and summoned.”

[4:14]  ² tn Heb “Arise!”

[4:14]  ³ tn The verb form (a Hebrew perfect, indicating completed action from the standpoint of the speaker) emphasizes the certainty of the event. Though it had not yet taken place, the Lord speaks of it as a “done deal.”

[4:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “Has the Lord not gone out before you?”

[6:2]  ³ tn Heb “the hand of Midian.”

[6:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “The hand of Midian was strong against Israel.”

[6:2]  ⁵ tn Or possibly “secret storage places.” The Hebrew word occurs only here in the Hebrew Bible.

[7:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “call into the ears of the people.”

[7:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “afraid and shaking.”

[7:3]  ⁶ tc Many interpreters reject the MT reading “and leave Mount Gilead” for geographical reasons. A possible alternative, involving rather radical emendation of the Hebrew text, would be, “So Gideon tested them” (i.e., thinned the ranks in this manner).

[7:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “people.” The translation uses “men” because warriors are in view, and in ancient Israelite culture these would be only males. (This is also the case in vv. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.)

[7:3]  ⁸ tn Or “turned around, back.”

[9:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “And they reported to Jotham.” The subject of the plural verb is indefinite.

[9:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “He lifted his voice and called and said to them.”

[11:37]  ⁶ tn Heb “Let this thing be done for me.”

[11:37]  ⁷ tn Heb “Leave me alone for two months so I can go and go down on the hills and weep over my virginity – I and my friends.”

[16:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “And Samson lay until the middle of the night and arose in the middle of the night.”

[16:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “with the bar.”

[16:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “which is upon the face of Hebron.”

[18:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”

[18:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[18:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”

[19:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “a man, a Levite.”

[19:1]  ¹⁰ sn See the note on the word “concubine” in 8:31.

[19:1]  ¹¹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:16]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And look, an old man was coming from his work, from the field in the evening.”

[19:16]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the men of the place were Benjaminites.”

[19:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Levite) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:18]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[19:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [to] the house of the LORD I am going.” The Hebrew text has “house of the LORD,” which might refer to the shrine at Shiloh. The LXX reads “to my house.”