Judges 6:27
Context6:27 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 8:30
Context8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives. 4
Judges 14:19
Context14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes 5 and gave them 6 to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home. 7


[6:27] 1 tn Heb “men from among his servants.”
[6:27] 3 tn Heb “so he did it at night.”
[8:30] 4 tn Heb “Gideon had seventy sons who went out from his thigh, for he had many wives.” The Hebrew word יָרֵךְ (yarekh, “thigh”) is a euphemism here for the penis.
[14:19] 7 tn Heb “equipment”; or “gear.”