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 8:26

8:26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. ⁵  This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, ⁶  purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. ⁷ 

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches ⁸  against the stronghold and set fire to it. ⁹  All the people ¹⁰  of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

Judges 12:6

12:6 then they said to him, “Say ‘Shibboleth!’” ¹¹  If he said, “Sibboleth” (and could not pronounce the word ¹²  correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead.

Judges 15:11

15:11 Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.”

Judges 16:5

16:5 The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, “Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate ¹³  him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces.”

Judges 17:2-3

17:2 He said to his mother, “You know ¹⁴  the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen ¹⁵  from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole ¹⁶  it, but now I am giving it back to you.” ¹⁷  His mother said, “May the Lord reward ¹⁸  you, my son!” 17:3 When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, “I solemnly dedicate ¹⁹  this silver to the Lord. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.” ²⁰ 

Judges 20:15

20:15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. ²¹ 

Judges 20:25

20:25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. ²² 

Judges 20:35

20:35 The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites. ²³ 

Judges 21:10

21:10 So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors ²⁴  against Jabesh Gilead. ²⁵  They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords ²⁶  the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

[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?”

[8:26]  ³ sn Seventeen hundred gold shekels would be about 42.7 pounds (19.4 kilograms) of gold.

[8:26]  ⁴ tn Or “pendants.”

[8:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.”

[9:49]  ⁴ tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:49]  ⁵ tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

[9:49]  ⁶ tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.

[12:6]  ⁵ sn The inability of the Ephraimites to pronounce the word shibboleth the way the Gileadites did served as an identifying test. It illustrates that during this period there were differences in pronunciation between the tribes. The Hebrew word shibboleth itself means “stream” or “flood,” and was apparently chosen simply as a test case without regard to its meaning.

[12:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and could not prepare to speak.” The precise meaning of יָכִין (yakhin) is unclear. Some understand it to mean “was not careful [to say it correctly]”; others emend to יָכֹל (yakhol, “was not able [to say it correctly]”) or יָבִין (yavin, “did not understand [that he should say it correctly]”), which is read by a few Hebrew mss.

[16:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “subdue him in order to humiliate him.”

[17:2]  ⁷ tn The words “You know” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[17:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “taken.”

[17:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “took.”

[17:2]  ¹⁰ tn In the Hebrew text the statement, “but now I am giving it back to you,” appears at the end of v. 3 and is spoken by the mother. But v. 4 indicates that she did not give the money back to her son. Unless the statement is spoken by the woman to the LORD, it appears to be misplaced and fits much better in v. 2. It may have been accidentally omitted from a manuscript, written in the margin, and then later inserted in the wrong place in another manuscript.

[17:2]  ¹¹ tn Traditionally, “bless.”

[17:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “dedicating, I dedicate.” In this case the emphatic infinitive absolute lends a mood of solemnity to the statement.

[17:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “to the LORD from my hand for my son to make a carved image and cast metal image.” She cannot mean that she is now taking the money from her hand and giving it back to her son so he can make an image. Verses 4-6 indicate she took back the money and used a portion of it to hire a silversmith to make an idol for her son to use. The phrase “a carved image and cast metal image” is best taken as referring to two idols (see 18:17-18), even though the verb at the end of v. 4, וַיְהִי (vayÿhi, “and it was [in the house of Micah]”), is singular.

[20:15]  ⁹ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

[20:25]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And Benjamin went out to meet them from Gibeah the second day, and they struck down among the sons of Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all of these were wielding the sword.”

[20:35]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the sons of Israel struck down in Benjamin that day 25,100 men, all of these wielding the sword.”

[21:10]  ¹² tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[21:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “there.”

[21:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the edge of the sword.”