Judges 6:27

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 

Judges 7:7

7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army ⁴  and I will hand Midian over to you. ⁵  The rest of the men should go home.” ⁶ 

Judges 8:15

8:15 He approached the men of Succoth and said, “Look what I have! ⁷  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?’” ⁸ 

Judges 9:2

9:2 “Tell ⁹  all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want ¹⁰  to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” ¹¹ 

Judges 10:18

10:18 The leaders ¹²  of Gilead said to one another, “Who is willing to lead the charge ¹³  against the Ammonites? He will become the leader of all who live in Gilead!”

Judges 12:4

12:4 Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying, ¹⁴  “You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim, living within Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s territory.” ¹⁵ 

Judges 13:6

13:6 The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God ¹⁶  came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome. ¹⁷  I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.

Judges 18:2

18:2 The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, ¹⁸  capable men ¹⁹  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. ²⁰ 

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ²¹  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ²² 

Judges 19:23

19:23 The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, “No, my brothers! Don’t do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don’t do such a disgraceful thing!

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. ²³ 

Judges 20:45

20:45 The rest ²⁴  turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites ²⁵  caught ²⁶  five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels ²⁷  all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

[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.”

[7:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.

[7:7]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.

[7:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”

[8:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look!” The words “what I have” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

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

[9:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”

[9:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “What good is it to you?”

[9:2]  ¹² tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

[10:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “the people, the officers.”

[10:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “Who is the man who will begin fighting.”

[12:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “because they said.”

[12:4]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “Refugees of Ephraim are you, O Gilead, in the midst of Ephraim and in the midst of Manasseh.” The LXX omits the entire second half of the verse (beginning with “because”). The words כִּי אָמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם (ki ’amru pÿlitey ’efrayim, “because they said, ‘Refugees of Ephraim’”) may have been accidentally copied from the next verse (cf. כִּי יֹאמְרוּ פְּלִיטֵי אֶפְרַיִם, ki yo’mÿru pelitey ’efrayim) and the following words (“you, O Gilead…Manasseh”) then added in an attempt to make sense of the verse. See G. F. Moore, Judges (ICC), 307-8, and C. F. Burney, Judges, 327. If the Hebrew text is retained, then the Ephraimites appear to be insulting the Gileadites by describing them as refugees who are squatting on Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s land. The present translation assumes that “Ephraim” is a genitive of location after “refugees.”

[13:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “The man of God.”

[13:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “His appearance was like the appearance of the messenger of God, very awesome.”

[18:2]  ²² tn Heb “The Danites sent from their tribe five men, from their borders.”

[18:2]  ²³ tn Heb “men, sons of strength.”

[18:2]  ²⁴ tn Heb “They came to the Ephraimite hill country, to Micah’s house, and spent the night there.”

[18:17]  ²⁵ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

[18:17]  ²⁶ tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”

[20:15]  ²⁸ tn Heb “besides from the ones living in Gibeah they mustered seven hundred choice men.”

[20:45]  ³¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ³² tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ³³ tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.

[20:45]  ³⁴ tn Heb “stuck close after them.”