Judges 5:27

5:27 Between her feet he collapsed,

he fell limp ¹  and was lifeless; ² 

between her feet he collapsed and fell limp,

in the spot where he collapsed,

there he fell limp – violently murdered! ³ 

Judges 5:16

5:16 Why do you remain among the sheepfolds, ⁴ 

listening to the shepherds playing their pipes ⁵  for their flocks? ⁶ 

As for the clans of Reuben – there was intense searching of heart.

Judges 13:25

13:25 The Lord’s spirit began to control him ⁷  in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judges 4:5

4:5 She would sit ⁸  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ⁹  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ¹⁰ 

Judges 5:11

5:11 Hear ¹¹  the sound of those who divide the sheep ¹²  among the watering places;

there they tell of ¹³  the Lord’s victorious deeds,

the victorious deeds of his warriors ¹⁴  in Israel.

Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

Judges 9:23

9:23 God sent a spirit to stir up hostility ¹⁵  between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal ¹⁶  to Abimelech.

Judges 4:17

4:17 Now Sisera ran away on foot to the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for King Jabin of Hazor ¹⁷  and the family of Heber the Kenite had made a peace treaty. ¹⁸ 

Judges 11:27

11:27 I have not done you wrong, ¹⁹  but you are doing wrong ²⁰  by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’”

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 16:25

16:25 When they really started celebrating, ²³  they said, “Call for Samson so he can entertain us!” So they summoned Samson from the prison and he entertained them. ²⁴  They made him stand between two pillars.

Judges 16:31

16:31 His brothers and all his family ²⁵  went down and brought him back. ²⁶  They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led ²⁷  Israel for twenty years.

[5:27]  ¹ tn Heb “he fell.” The same Hebrew expression occurs two more times in this verse.

[5:27]  ² tn Heb “and he lay.

[5:27]  ³ tn Or “dead, murdered.”

[5:16]  ⁴ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word מִשְׁפְּתַיִם (mishpÿtayim) is uncertain. Some understand the word to mean “campfires.”

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Or “whistling.”

[5:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “listening to the pipe playing for the flocks.”

[13:25]  ⁷ tn Or “move him to action”; or “stir him.”

[4:5]  ¹⁰ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

[4:5]  ¹¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ¹² tn Heb “for judgment.”

[5:11]  ¹³ tn The word “Hear” is supplied in the translation for clarification and for stylistic reasons.

[5:11]  ¹⁴ tn The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain. Some translate “those who distribute the water” (HALOT 344 s.v. חצץ pi). For other options see B. Lindars, Judges 1-5, 246-47.

[5:11]  ¹⁵ tn Or perhaps “repeat.”

[5:11]  ¹⁶ tn See the note on the term “warriors” in v. 7.

[9:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “an evil spirit.” A nonphysical, spirit being is in view, like the one who volunteered to deceive Ahab (1 Kgs 22:21). The traditional translation, “evil spirit,” implies the being is inherently wicked, perhaps even demonic, but this is not necessarily the case. The Hebrew adjective רָעַה (ra’ah) can have a nonethical sense, “harmful; dangerous; calamitous.” When modifying רוּחַ (ruakh, “spirit”) it may simply indicate that the being in view causes harm to the object of God’s judgment. G. F. Moore (Judges [ICC], 253) here refers to a “mischief-making spirit.”

[9:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “The leaders of Shechem were disloyal.” The words “he made” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[4:17]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map1 D2; Map2 D3; Map3 A2; Map4 C1.

[4:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “for there was peace between.”

[11:27]  ²² tn Or “sinned against you.”

[11:27]  ²³ tn Or “evil.”

[15:4]  ²⁵ tn Traditionally, “foxes.”

[15:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “He turned tail to tail and placed one torch between the two tails in the middle.”

[16:25]  ²⁸ tn Heb “When their heart was good.”

[16:25]  ²⁹ tn Heb “before them.”

[16:31]  ³¹ tn Heb “and all the house of his father.”

[16:31]  ³² tn Heb “and lifted him up and brought up.”

[16:31]  ³³ tn Traditionally, “judged.”