Judges 6:27-28

6:27 So Gideon took ten of his servants ¹  and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family ²  and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime. ³ 

6:28 When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw ⁴  the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

Judges 6:30

6:30 The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so we can execute him! ⁵  He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.”

Judges 8:15

8:15 He approached the men of Succoth and said, “Look what I have! ⁶  Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying, ‘You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?’” ⁷ 

Judges 9:28

9:28 Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? ⁸  Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech? ⁹ 

Judges 9:49

9:49 So each of his men also cut off a branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches ¹⁰  against the stronghold and set fire to it. ¹¹  All the people ¹²  of the Tower of Shechem died – about a thousand men and women.

Judges 12:5

12:5 The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River ¹³  opposite Ephraim. ¹⁴  Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive ¹⁵  said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked ¹⁶  him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,”

Judges 14:18

14:18 On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,

“What is sweeter than honey?

What is stronger than a lion?”

He said to them,

“If you had not plowed with my heifer, ¹⁷ 

you would not have solved my riddle!”

[6:27]  ¹ tn Heb “men from among his servants.”

[6:27]  ² tn Heb “house.”

[6:27]  ³ tn Heb “so he did it at night.”

[6:28]  ⁴ tn Heb “look!” The narrator uses this word to invite his audience/readers to view the scene through the eyes of the men.

[6:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “and let him die.” The jussive form with vav after the imperative is best translated as a purpose clause.

[8:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Look!” The words “what I have” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[8:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Are the palms of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give to your exhausted men bread?”

[9:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “and Zebul his appointee.”

[9:28]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abimelech) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:49]  ¹⁶ tn The words “the branches” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[9:49]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “they kindled over them the stronghold with fire.”

[9:49]  ¹⁸ tn Or “men,” but the word seems to have a more general sense here, as the conclusion to the sentence suggests.

[12:5]  ¹⁹ tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification.

[12:5]  ²⁰ tn Or “against Ephraim,” that is, so as to prevent Ephraim from crossing.

[12:5]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew text has a plural form here.

[12:5]  ²² tn Heb “say to.”

[14:18]  ²² sn Plowed with my heifer. This statement emphasizes that the Philistines had utilized a source of information which should have been off-limits to them. Heifers were used in plowing (Hos 10:11), but one typically used one’s own farm animals, not another man’s.