Judges 5:15

5:15 Issachar’s leaders were with Deborah,

the men of Issachar ¹  supported ²  Barak;

into the valley they were sent under Barak’s command. ³ 

Among the clans of Reuben there was intense ⁴  heart searching. ⁵ 

Judges 7:1

Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ⁶  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ⁷  The Midianites ⁸  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Judges 7:8

7:8 The men ⁹  who were chosen ¹⁰  took supplies ¹¹  and their trumpets. Gideon ¹²  sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; ¹³  he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites ¹⁴  were camped down below ¹⁵  in the valley.

Judges 7:12

7:12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. ¹⁶  Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.

Judges 18:28

18:28 No one came to the rescue because the city ¹⁷  was far from Sidon ¹⁸  and they had no dealings with anyone. ¹⁹  The city ²⁰  was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites ²¹  rebuilt the city and occupied it.

[5:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Issachar.” The words “the men of” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[5:15]  ² tn Or “was true to.”

[5:15]  ³ tn Heb “at his feet.”

[5:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “great was.”

[5:15]  ⁵ tc The great majority of Hebrew mss have “resolves of heart,” but a few mss read “searchings of heart,” which is preferable in light of v. 16.

[7:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”

[7:1]  ⁷ sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

[7:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).

[7:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The people.”

[7:8]  ¹² tn The words “who were chosen” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[7:8]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text has “in their hands.”

[7:8]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[7:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “tents.”

[7:8]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Midian.”

[7:8]  ¹⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds “him” (i.e., Gideon).

[7:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east were falling in the valley like locusts in great number.”

[18:28]  ²¹ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ²² map For location see Map1 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[18:28]  ²³ tn Heb “and a thing there was not to them with men.”

[18:28]  ²⁴ tn Heb “it.” The Hebrew pronoun is feminine singular here, referring to the “city” (a grammatically feminine singular noun) mentioned in v. 27.

[18:28]  ²⁵ tn Heb “They”; the referent (the Danites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.